Thursday, December 21, 2006

R.I.P., Turkmenbashi

The most insane, all-powerful world leader not named Kim Jong-Il died suddenly this morning. Read up on his bizarre cult of personality, naming cities, airports, and even months after himself.

Update: Wikipedia says, about his mandatory-reading book Ruhnama,
An enormous mechanical replica of the book is located in the capital; every night at 8:00PM it opens and passages are recited with accompanying video.
You can read the book for yourself in English here.

2 Comments:

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At Friday, December 22, 2006 at 9:17:00 AM PST, Blogger Adam Villani said...

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