Cult of Personality

[phamos]

Total crazy person dies. We will remember Niyazov as a great leader whose contributions to his people include: * Building a giant gold statue of himself which turns to face the sun * Naming a month after himself, and one after his mother * Instituting a national festival of melon * Building the world's largest shoes * Constructing a giant ice palace in the middle of the desert * Dictating a national hairstyle for men and women * Requiring television hosts to wear less makeup * Writing a book of sayings, the Rukhnama, and making it required reading throughout the country, to the extent of basing the drivers' license exam on knowledge of its text * Redefining adolescence to end during the mid-20s * Closing down all hospitals in Turkmenistan outside the capital city of Ashgabat and so on.