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| 2004/9/24-26 [Politics/Foreign/MiddleEast/Iraq] UID:33744 Activity:kinda low |
9/24 Turkmenbashi greatest poet! All hail Turkmenbashi!
http://funreports.com/2004/09/23/56244.html
\_ Just in case if someone doesn't know who Turkmenbashi is, check
out wikipedia article,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saparmurat_Niyazov
\_ Thank you, it's much richer with the context.
\_ Holy crap. Shades of Saddam.
\_ Way, way more insane |
| funreports.com/2004/09/23/56244.html Turkmen president writes pomes and reads them on TV Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov read his own poems on the air of all three channels of the national television. "I have presented you a selection of poems from my new poetic work entitled "The Spring of Inspiration." I hope that you will express your opinion about it," the president said after the 15-hour recitation in the Palace of Rukhiet. The Turkmen president rests and writes poems there in the residence. The president wrote poems about his love to the fatherland, about the greatest figures in the history of the Turkmen nation, about the president's own perception of the natural beauty and human values. Local residents applauded to the president's every keen and witted word. "Saparmurat Niyazov has a gift in poetry," the book about the childhood and youth of the Turkmen president says. "He dedicated his first poem to his mother, who died in an earthquake in Ashkhabad." The above-mentioned collection of the Turkmen president's poems is slated to be released in the beginning of October. Every deputy of the national parliament will have a copy of the book on their desks. |
| en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saparmurat_Niyazov Believing Turkmenistan to be a nation devoid of a national identity, he has attempted to rebuild the country in his own image. Large portraits of the President hang all over the country, especially on major public buildings and avenues, and statues of himself and his mother are scattered all over Turkmenistan. ice palace be constructed in the middle of the desert country, although many observers have said that without some form of technical assistance it will be an impossible dream. The education system indoctrinates young Turkmen to love Niyazov, with his works and speeches making up most of their textbooks' content. Ruhnama, which serves as the "spiritual guidance of the nation" and the basis of the nation's arts and literature. Some critics claim that the attempt was staged in order to crack down on mounting political opposition from inside the country and abroad. |