Turkmenbashy Part 1: Soviet Stooge, Hermit Tyrant
Real Dictators
The Turkmen Bashi Story
Turkmen dictator Sapemura Nyatsov was a wily operator who found a niche for his country, free from the interference of either East or West. His private fiefdom remained invisible to many, even amidst the global explosion of information technology. It will take much more than the pulling down of a statue to dent his legacy. How is it possible? at the advent of the new millennium, for one individual to bend a country to his will without any real constraints upon him? Or to put it another way, how is a modern time and made? This is part one of the Turkmen Bashi story, and this is Real Dictators.
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