Now-dead Turkmen dictator is having his cult of personality erased; enjoy this propoganda montage

by Hopenow | July 11, 2007 at 05:37 am
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Turkmenbashi, the Turkmen dictator who died in December 2006, built the most elaborate personality cult of the 21st century. Ashgabat, his white marble capital, became a monument to his ego and his aspirations. Paid for by oil and gas revenue, his people were left to live a life of austerity and repression, while Turkmenbashi and the government's coffers became fat. The new president, Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, is quickly erasing Turkmenbashi's personality cult (maybe to start his own?) - so enjoy this montage before it disappears down the black hole of history.


 


You can watch it on www.youtube.com: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3rDIfekML8

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