The Importance of Statues in Turkmenistan

As natural gas money started to flow into the country, Turkmenistan found itself with money for the first time and ever. Serdar Turkmen Boschii, a man who had promised his people prosperity, knew what he had to spend his win fall on. He spent it all on statues. Of course it's statues. I think there's something in our DNA where we want to... It's just a natural thing we want to do is make statues.