NationStates Jolt Archive

It's a good thing for freedom, but it's almost a loss for lovers of good comedy.

Awww, I'm gonna miss that guy.

I wish more presidents in third world countries were like him...because if you have to be evil and insane you should at least be funny.

Oops.

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/12/21/turkmen.leader.dead.ap/index.html

I actually yelled out "Noooo!" when I saw the news on the TV. I loved that guy!

He'll be a tough act to follow.

For all the grieving people out there who'll have to endure the rest of their physical existence without Turkmenbashi, here is his great work, the Ruhnama: http://www.ruhnama.com/

He really was a comedy dictator. Even better than Kim "my platform shoes make me look not like a midget" Jong Il.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again...

"Would you like a slice of Martha?"

Good fucking riddance.

Secondary education has been reduced in Turkmenistan to a required nine years, causing human rights groups to complain of a deliberate attempt to dumb down the population to prevent dissent.:rolleyes:

There still is Than Shwe as weirdo leader!

Than Shwe is notorious for his use of astrological predictions to formulate some of his policy. It is rumoured that an astrological prediction was the reason that the national capital was moved from Yangon to Naypyidaw, Pyinmana Township, Mandalay Division in late 2005.

From the Wikipedia article about him

There still is Than Shwe as weirdo leader!

Than Shwe is notorious for his use of astrological predictions to formulate some of his policy. It is rumoured that an astrological prediction was the reason that the national capital was moved from Yangon to Naypyidaw, Pyinmana Township, Mandalay Division in late 2005.

From the Wikipedia article about him
Holy crap, it was?? o_O I didn't even know that.

ETA: Man, they also kicked the Red Cross out of the country in September! I had no idea!

:rolleyes:
You know that he closed all the libraries in Turkmenistan because "Turkmens don't read anyways"?

:D

Here, Woglaubstdugehstduhin, for your further amusement:
http://www.radarmagazine.com/features/2006/12/autocrats.php

:)

Those bottles of whisky shaped in form of Niyazov's bust are going to become pretty valuable soon. Last of a kind. Damnit, I wish I'd had enough money to buy when I was in the region.

Here, Woglaubstdugehstduhin, for your further amusement:
http://www.radarmagazine.com/features/2006/12/autocrats.php

:)More scary than amusing, n'est-ce pas?
But I learned that Kalmykia is apparently a sovereign country. Did anyone know that?

But I learned that Kalmykia is apparently a sovereign country. Did anyone know that?

I was under the impression that it's an autonomous republic within the Russian Federation, as Ukraine and Belarus were autonomous republics within the USSR.

Awww....there was a really good article about him in the Sunday Times Magazine this week as well...

SO he left a power vacuum. I am interested who's going to be in charge of that little fucked up place now...

Didn't he make a law where he decided for each day how all babies born on that day would be called?

There still is Than Shwe as weirdo leader!


I was trying to think of who inherits the title "weirdest leader", and I'd actually forgotten about Than Shwe! :eek:

In any case, I'll be curious to see how the next leader is decided. Post-Soviet Turkmenistan has never known any other leader than Niyazov.

Awww. I liked him, he was funny.

Awww, poor crazy bastard. :(

so, who gets the most eccentric leader title now?

I think either Kim Jong il or Than Shwe

It's a good thing for freedom, but it's almost a loss for lovers of good comedy.

I hated that guy! He was evil and the uber-ego maniac.

I hated that guy! He was evil and the uber-ego maniac.

yeah, but in a hillarious way!

Interesting...I wonder what happens now...

so, who gets the most eccentric leader title now?

Him, definitely. He will be missed outside of Turkmenistan, that is...

:(