Turkmenistan: the most closed country of the former USSR | Fear, corruption and escapes to Turkey

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Turkmenistan is the craziest country of the former USSR. The cult of personality here has been taken to the extent of idiocy, censorship works like in the worst times of Stalin, and people suffer from hunger, poverty and constant fear.
Local rulers take the pathetic names of Turkmenbashi and Arkadag, and citizens flee to Turkey in order to somehow survive. The country sells oil and gas, builds palaces of marble and statues of gold, but its people are forced to emigrate. Today I will tell you about Turkmenistan, a country of a crazy regime, poverty and ruins.
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Timestamps:
00:00:00 Introduction
00:04:26 History of Turkmenistan
00:08:08 Opposition in Turkmenistan
00:10:03 Niyazov's power: how the Turkmen regime appeared
00:14:07 Independence of Turkmenistan: failure of the State Emergency Committee, referendum and "democracy"
00:16:32 How Niyazov's personality cult was born after the collapse of the USSR
00:23:55 How does a personality cult affect ordinary people?
00:26:44 The greatness of Niyazov and the main book of the Turkmen people
00:28:41 Neutrality of Turkmenistan: how the regime is protected
00:29:58 Attack on Niyazov
00:33:15 Strengthening the regime: censorship, hairstyles and Niyazov's eccentricities
00:34:12 Is religion banned in Turkmenistan?
00:35:41 Corruption in Turkmenistan
00:38:11 How ordinary people lived under Niyazov
00:39:36 Berdimuhamedov's rise to power: from concessions to new bans
00:47:15 The flight of the people, the ban on leaving the country and the "black list"
00:48:38 Why Turkmens are leaving the country