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Turkmenbashy Part 1: Soviet Stooge, Hermit Tyrant
Real Dictators
The First Secretary of the Communist Party in Turkmenistan
Power was really served to sub-martineers on a plate because he was the first secretary of the Communist Party in Turkmenistan. He's only just beginning to develop the cult of personality that will underpin his decade and a half of tyranny. Central Asia, from the Russian perspective, was never meant to have any of this kind of sovereignty and independence. They worked to sort of resuscitate and foster national narratives based on the ethnic majorities of each of those nation states.
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