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Part One: Turkmenbashi: The Dictator Who Declared Himself Jesus

Behind the Bastards

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The Man Who Banned the Movie Theaters

The country's few movie theaters shut down, but he did replace the movie theaters with a single enormous puppet theater in the capital. His exact justification was something along the lines of like all these movies made by foreign people are going to make people not like the way we talk here and turn this down. "He's definitely trying to make people in his country not realize just how screwed they are"

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