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Until 2009 year Turkmenistan was ruled by the well-known dictator Saparmurat Niyazov, Turkmenbashi. So, during his rule a CIS summit took place in Ashgabat. After the summit, at the banquet, Turkmenbashi suddenly said, "Gentlemen presidents, I want to introduce you to my government." The banquet hall doors opened, and men entered on all fours — more precisely they crawled in — dressed as the prime minister and other ministers.
They crawled up to Turkmenbashi one by one, and he put a candy into each of their mouths. Then he said to the foreign minister, "Come on, my faithful dog, bark," and he also acted out the scene, rising onto his hind legs and barking.
All of this was told to me in detail by the then president of Armenia, Robert Kocharyan, who demanded that this humiliation stop. Then he stood up and left the hall, although Putin, Lukashenko, and others remained.
A few months after this incident Turkmenbashi arrested almost the entire government and put them in a special prison in the city center, where the ceiling was so low that the prisoners could not stand up straight. He did not arrest only one minister — the minister of health, who was Saparmurat’s personal dentist and who constantly had to treat his teeth.
And then, some time later, that dentist named Berdimuhamedov apparently gave his master an excessive dose of anesthetic, and Turkmenbashi suddenly died, and the dentist became president.
Source: Mikheil Saakashvili / Facebook
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