The Most Insane Dictatorship on Earth

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How Turkmenistan Became the Most Evil Country on Earth

– Contents of this video ----------------------------
00:00 - The World’s Strangest Dictatorship
07:07 - The Cotton Colossus
17:01 - Great Leader of the Turkmen
25:00 - A Dictators Marble Paradise
32:31 - Echoes of the Throne

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[SomeYouTubeTraveler]

"unpaid cotton harvesting"

Y'know, in some parts of the world, we used to call that _slavery._

[thalesofmiletus]

I worked in Turkmenistan back in 2005. Flew in from Baku in Azerbaijan to Ashgabat. Then flew to Turkmenbashi. (English spellings). I had to show my passport 5 times before I got out the airport. Maximum Visa stay was 10 days. The streets were immaculate and empty in Ashgabat. The flight to Turkmenbashi was an eye opener. Chickens, open gas cookers, phone calls and all as we were taking off. Turkmenbashi was a very run down town. We had a few days before we flew to an offshore drilling rig so explored. People didn’t smile at all. The hotel and shops had very little goods. No hospital we were told. There was an American humanity agency whose name I can’t remember and they had internet and basic nursing services. On our return to Ashgabat we were almost arrested at the airport in Turkmenbashi for hanging around outside the airport waiting on our agent/taxi. The police only spoke Russian. We didn’t. Anyhoo crisis averted when taxi arrived. On leaving Turkmenbashi we went to a pub and asked the bar owner to turn down the music. He said it was on so KGB couldn’t listen to my friend and I’s conversation. Fair enough. It was a free for all getting on the aircraft and my colleague panicked when the luggage handlers took his passport and hadn’t given it back. (He got it eventually). Incidentally my colleague was an Aussie flying on a British passport. That caused no end of trouble getting a visa in Ashgabat. The police came on the aircraft before we took off and tossed a whole family in the 4 seats in the front row off the aircraft so a bloke in a makeshift stretcher of a blanket was put there. We found out from a stewardess who spoke a little English he was going to the hospital in Ashgabat as he had broken his back. Yikes. I’m sure the blanket helped. Not!! The flight attendants served tea and sweets whilst stepping over him. The family in front of us brewed their own tea. Arriving in Ashgabat it was a taxi to the hotel where I had a bowl of the best mushroom soup I have ever had anywhere. The waitresses were beautiful and beautifully dressed and never smiled. Not once. However even in a place like Ashgabat there were ‘ladies of the night’in the hotel. There was a curfew after 11pm so we were whisked to the airport 4 hours before our flight back to Baku. At one point they weren’t letting me exit the country as they wrongly thought I needed a visa. I didn’t as an EU citizen. My friend got through no problem so I took my passport and flight ticket to the guy who stamped him out where he promptly stamped me out. It was an interesting 14 days. (Our visas were extended whilst on the rig). 20 years ago and I still remember it well. So much happened in those 2 weeks that this little diatribe only captures a little.

[Makrateli]

I have a Turkmen friend. We were in university together (not in Turkmenistan). He graduated, decided not to go back, obtained citizenship, opened his own business, was (and still is) relatively successful at that. He met a girl, couple of years later decided to marry her. Before that he said it was necessary for her to meet his parents. He went there in advance to prepare his parents (his girlfriend wasn’t Turkmen and he was very concerned about that). As soon as he landed, he was conscripted in the army and sent to a remote mountain outpost near the Iranian border. He came back two years later and swore he will never again go back to Turkmenistan

[Thomason-xvkp]

As soon as I heard "he banned black cars because they're bad luck" I knew we were dealing with a psychotic megalomaniac.

[scorpiovenator_]

This sounds like what a 10 year old would do if they became president of a nation

[matiosmi]

Blaming your dead predecessor for the country's failure might just be the greatest dictatorial invention ever.

[berliner]

I was in Turkmenistan a few weeks ago. The white vehicle rule is indeed a thing, however it only applies in the capital city, Ashgabad. Even then, there are some other light colours allowed, such as very light blue and green buses, and some beige cars. Outside Ashgabad, however, anything goes, and you can expect to see a normal range of colours and conditions of vehicles as you would anywhere else. Indeed I rode in a dark beige 4x4 in the desert.

[sweettart]

We just missed the opportunity to host an exchange student from Turkmenistan last year. Had I seen this documentary first, I'd have fought harder to have her placed in our school and tried to be a lifeline for her to seek asylum after!

[The_Funguseater]

It's like he's playing a real life game of Tropico

[Wardn_Main]

Imagine him just saying: “You are so slow, i outrun you even with my helicopter ha ha.”

[Paranoidx]

Its crazy how very few people get to control the many. Greed and power are the curse of humanity.

[crazy]

I met a guy from Turkmenistan a couple months ago in Japan. We were both very surprised that he was there. He told me some very sad stories about his life there.

[omarreyes]

And here I thought "the dictator" was a comedy movie, turns out it was a documentary.

[SjaakSchulteis]

Between 2001 and 2012 I have been several times in Tükmenistan. In that time I worked as a flight attendant for Lufthansa. We always had a few days off and I did some very interesting trips to places out of Ashkabad. It was interesting, but I was also happy to leave that country.

[waynecampbell]

Forcing orphans to pay for school renovations! Dr. Evil is jealous that he didn't think of that first.

[ina]

I’m tearing up thinking about the people in a perpetual state of suffering.. this is so horrible

[kingsolo]

It's crazy how power can make a person loose touch with reality.

[blacknapalm]

*Number 1 food source = Cabbage*
*Number 1 export = Natural Gas*

[scandathepole]

Banning beards and naming a Watermelon type after yourself is something Aladeen would do from Dictator (2012)

[chrisvmazer]

So he built an airport and a whole resort complex for millions of tourists but still hold on to the policy which allows 10k visitors per year. Did he not once thought that these two points might clash?