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Turkmenistan's Puppet-Loving Dictator
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The former leader of Turkmenistan, a country in Central Asia, shut down movie theaters and replaced them with a puppet theater, claiming that foreign movies would ruin the country's language. This move, along with other bizarre decisions, makes it seem like he was intentionally trolling his own country.

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