Comments on: Craziest Dictator Ever: Turkmenbashi.

By: Mega

Mega — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:55:58 +0000

>› He banned gold tooth caps and gold teeth, and >suggested that tooth preservation could be more >easily accomplished by chewing on bones.

>› In 2000 he ordered that a giant lake be created in >the desert along with a huge forest of cedar trees, >which, he said, would help to moderate Turkmenistan’s >climate.

>› In 2004, he ordered that a giant ice palace be >build in the middle of the same desert, the Karakum – >the hottest location in central Asia. It will include >a zoo with penguins.

Sorry, but these are all nonsence
Can you show me or tell me from which speech you took these things ?
I am sure you can not.

By: Mega

Mega — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 20:49:40 +0000

I am completly not agree with your article. Niyazov did many things for sake of country. Name Turkmenbashi was given to him by the people around him. And he never refered to himself as a turkmenbashi. Without knowing turkmenbashi do not write o nonsence about him.

By: bibi

bibi — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 11:18:30 +0000

juliet,

then in the next 2-3 year u will have little cute turkmenbashis fighting to name cereals, blankets, and stools their names, even though they all will have the same name. guess which name?? u r absolutely right: turkmenbashi!!

By: Juliet

Juliet — Mon, 19 May 2008 13:55:01 +0000

I'd SO marry him. <3

By: malvo

malvo — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 23:31:22 +0000

ide like to go to his grave site and pinch a steamy fudge loaf on his rotted carcass.

By: Bazwah

Bazwah — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:16:38 +0000

I've had the pleasure of spending 2 weeks in Turkmenistan very recently (work related) and it is actually not that bad. Providing of course you avoid the police, get off the streets by 11pm, only drink in the 3 bars that exist for us non-Turkmenistan nationals in the capital, and of course don't dare to take photos of anything if there is a police office/soldier near by. Just getting in and out of the country is an education - show your passport to 18 different people within the space of 150mtrs! And that was leaving!!!!

By: Tinderbox

Tinderbox — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 06:15:45 +0000

True, meg, but what I was really referring to was the wall-to-wall Paris coverage that the media has been serving us for the past week. And after all, a 50-foot robot shooting lasers sounds pretty cool! And imminently rational, I might add. Wouldn't we all do that if we could afford to?

By: Starstonight

Starstonight — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 02:25:43 +0000

Where can I get me some dictator vodka??

By: meg

meg — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 20:34:57 +0000

Tinderbox, I think a more appropriate analogy would be like Michael Jackson, what with his 50-foot robot that he wanted to build to shoot lasers into the sky. Paris Hilton may be self-absorbed, but she's nowhere close to organized or insane enough to pull this off.

By: AIeditor

AIeditor — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 06:49:36 +0000

There was some other crazed loony leader wanting to build an ice palace in the middle of the desert.

No..it was in Florida.

It melted, so the folks turned it into a water park!

By: Tinderbox

Tinderbox — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 06:16:53 +0000

So basically, Turkmenbashi was very much like Paris Hilton.

By: jess

jess — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 04:03:25 +0000

Although he died, all his ideology still holds today. He was replaced by another dictator.

By: Mike J S

Mike J S — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 00:15:49 +0000

Great article about all this in a current issue of The New Yorker. Very highly recommended!

By: meg

meg — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 20:50:01 +0000

Hah. Nice, keith. Anyway I have this particular book and it was published before he died...so it makes some sense...but still!

Now if only Kim Jong-Il would join him in whatever crazy dimension insane despots go to when they die.

By: Keith

Keith — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 18:42:40 +0000

Absolutely brilliant! In my world, I like to call all of my friends "Keith" so that when I talk to them they immediately think about me. I also re-label local library book so I am the author. I am very well published in my town!

By: phoolish

phoolish — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 16:19:31 +0000

Cute.

btw Ruhnama means "The Guide" in Persian.

By: Runa

Runa — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 15:58:56 +0000

That man was a genius! I'll try to change my name in Turkmenbashi!

By: Tom Morgan

Tom Morgan — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:40:51 +0000

Err. Once again, I jump to conclusions before thinking. Damn you, intarweb!

By: Tom Morgan

Tom Morgan — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:33:46 +0000

I know it's been transcribed from a book, so I'll cut *some* slack, but the simple fact is that HE'S DEAD! Died last year. So, uh, the whole piece reads very oddly in the present tense.

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 08:09:47 +0000

The tone of the article, with sentences like:
'Since then, heâ€™s undertaken scores of self-aggrandizing â€“ and bizarre â€“ measures'
suggest that Turkmenbashi is still alive. He died at the end of last year and I'm not sure that all of the laws and regulations quoted above are still in force.