World’s weirdest country

[@ljss6805]

If y'all are wondering, Tuekmenistan is basically the Soviet version of North Korea. I dated a girl from Turkmenistan and she was traumatized, always being afraid we were being watched and surveilled (we were in NYC).

[@saltandsriracha]

I feel this way too. But I'm from Canada. 💀

[@ljss6805]

@@saltandsriracha And yet, you have the freedom of typing that comment and specifying where you live. So, you clearly have freedom.

[@Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman]

​@@ljss6805 little more freedom

[@ljss6805]

@@Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman Incomparably more. The Canadian government's protection of others from bigotry is the championing of freedom, not censure. It's like saying your country isn't really free because you can't speed without getting a ticket or shoot someone on the street without being arrested. Give me a break.

[@andrewcall8961]

If you had a cell phone on you, you were being followed and watched

[@bigbadmojothebulldog]

I wonder what the rest of the country looks like. You know, the parts that supervised tourists aren’t allowed to visit.

[@windfromfelixia]

Mongolia but with government drones disguised as birds

[@thefuture4956]

​@@windfromfelixia i wont believe it

[@windfromfelixia]

@@thefuture4956 believe what?

[@MetalxxDragoness]

Mining and digging up the stories of the Bible 🤔 what is the truth?

[@bobdabldr323]

Exactly

[@stevememc]

"Tourists who do visit are under requirements to have a guide with you at all times" that just explains it all

[@NH-hp2nn]

I wonder why they need a guide at all times?

[@thorr18BEM]

@@NH-hp2nnsame reason for all the restrictions in N Korea. A true dystopia.

[@NH-hp2nn]

@@thorr18BEM and what are the reasons for that one? I’m not aware.

[@thorr18BEM]

@@NH-hp2nn North Korea's regime uses isolation, indoctrination, and repression to maintain control and protect its propaganda and ideology. North Koreans are not allowed to leave the country without the government's permission, and leaving without permission is punishable by death. Visitors are likewise not allowed to enter the real parts of the country where exists more than just the fiction put on by the regime. They can not take unapproved photographs and smuggle them out of the country because it gives the rest of the world a window into how evil things are there. They can not talk to the general populace because that would break the isolation which is key to control.

[@ethansprague2005]

​@NH-hp2nn some dictatorships want to avoid any chance of any information of what is going on inside to leak, so they do every measure possible to prevent it. North Korea happens to suck at it because we know about a lot more than we know about turkmenistan

[@dagonkur]

If you liked visiting Turkmenistan, you should try North Korea next. They have guides who bring you everywhere too and there's beautiful architecture.

[@PinkiePie45838283734666o9]

Nah, NK is evil. Turkmenistan is okay.

[@lennartjuhh]

'Everywhere' 😂😂😂 except the labor camps and starved insanely poor areas, which is most of the country

[@dagonkur]

@@lennartjuhh Correct 'everywhere' they want you to see

[@Joeskilove]

Yes yea do that one please but better make a will first

[@hotsexyangel]

Crazy ahh comment

[@SeventhGod77]

Bro went to a dictatorship surveillance state and said “loved it despite the eerie feeling”.

[@Cb22075]

lmaoooooooooo X-D

[@yaelz]

😂😂😂

[@napoleonicprussiaball]

Ngl would be pretty cool to travel to some dystopian dictatorship n shiet

[@tylcouli]

Come to canada

[@rexross4847]

@@tylcouli it isn't THAT bad but it still sucks

[@lucasrobbins2705]

My dude has NO survival instincts. "Nobody around? No contact with the outside world? Under constant supervision? Huh, so weird."

[@mhug162]

Survival? Lmao they aren’t killing tourists for nothing. It ain’t Kampuchea

[@какегоэтот]

​@@tazepatates4805 for the same reason they care about making giant luxurious city

[@corpsehandler5321]

it's giving white guys in horror movies

[@MarsSwim86]

Well, they have a guide with them at all times.

[@AnnaHans88]

I noticed that many of these adrenaline junkie travel bros aren't the brightest bunch...

[@CasuallyYobudwilson]

West Korea be looking fire 🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥 (I usually take things seriously, but this one is different, can y'all stop fighting and just try to understand each other)

[@SiminaDar]

I cackled. Take my like.

[@shrutiranjan0511]

😂😂😂

[@angamaitesangahyando685]

Why do Westerners always have to talk bad about other countries? Turkmenistan has like 5 mil. people in a desert, is peaceful, never attacked anyone... But people are calling it evil names :( - Adûnâi

[@CasuallyYobudwilson]

@@angamaitesangahyando685 it's ironic or sarcastic humor I think (My sense of humor is really bad so some of my jokes might be bad in taste sorry)

[@windfromfelixia]

@@angamaitesangahyando685 ITS A TOTALITARIAN DICTATORSHIP OF COURSE PEOPLE ARE GONNA SAY ITS LIKE NORTH KOREA.

[@Mashy8722]

I actually watched a video where an investigative journalist went here and he was pretty much not aloud to do anything. He too had to have a guide anytime they left their hotel, and when he would try and ask any questions to the “locals” they seemed like they too were just a set up by the govt. he said the same thing about this place that something just felt super off about this place and there were SO many things that just didn’t make any sense. It’s kind of trippy not gonna lie

[@ЛенивыйЖирдяй47-м5я]

Yeah... This is my country... (I'm from there)

[@Mashy8722]

@ really??! What’s it like to live there??? Seems like they try to keep a lot hidden which is strange if there’s nothing to hide lol

[@rose_undercover]

There is no war in ba sing se

[@kaleyjoplinRAWRR]

Basically like North Korea!

[@ЛенивыйЖирдяй47-м5я]

Yt ys veri kool... I happi... 😀🙂 But seriously... It's like... Bird box... Yeah, big, comfort, soft, but... Empty, scary, locked. (I'll try to not use "T" word, because I got really bad fillings about my safety... And I'm not kidding, girl) Emptyness. Population is about 5 mln people. So... You understanding, huh, right?)) THERE'S NO HOMELESS IN THE STREET. "Do not".Patrols, komendants, police after 23:00 in the parks, valleys, main streets. Seriously, I've just been waiting for one girl... Alone! These two cops in civils just stare at me and... It's creepy to realise that you are scary of your own guards... Freedom... FORGET ABOUT IT. P.S.: Ask any of TM people what is he thinking about his country and you'll see the - 😅I love it!... 🙂 I'm happy... 😀Don't ask me about it!)))) please) I hope, I let you imagine this. Sorry, my English is very poor and... I'll practice ok?) P.P.S.: your ava is so preety, is that you?)

[@Bigrignohio]

"Locals were super friendly and welcoming". Because A) You were probably the ONLY tourist they saw that week and B) If they were not your "guide" will report it.

[@UserCode1861]

😂😂😂😂

[@DMG380]

They weren't locals. They were former KGB now KNB agents.

[@semvlasveld8799]

@@DMG380 Seriousely? The Zionist stars in the hotel also give hints.

[@persistent-programmer]

This

[@michellebordeaux7975]

So this is the town that guy used to say he time traveled😂

[@aqhasassy]

Foreigners live in the sky rise apartments. Most Turkmenians live in cramped and crumbling five-story apartments dating to the Soviet era, or in bare villages. As one said, one notch above N Korea.

[@toryburke137]

😂😂😂

[@missmayflower]

Why would foreigners live there?

[@christophera556]

Thing is why would any foreigners want to travel to such a brutal country, its the North Korea of Central Asia thats in itself should say avoid altogether.

[@toryburke137]

@@christophera556 because of who the foreigners are and the activities they participate in. They clearly have spent a lot of investor money building up such a well kept empire city. I wonder what types of products they produce.

[@angelauska]

How do you know? Are you from there?

[@stevengreen9536]

That city is super empty because it was created purely as a show piece. No one is allowed to live there. The gas crater is an accident. Decades ago Turkmenistan wanted to become the primary natural gas supplier to Russia. So the previous dictator built this big refinery solely for this purpose. But something went terribly wrong. The refinery got swallowed up into a huge fire crater which is still burning to this day.

[@nunyabidness6045]

Creepy.

[@olechristianhenne6583]

​@@nunyabidness6045yeah something tells me there's more to it then spooky scary skeletons

[@CleverAccountName303]

Why would Russia need to import natural gas?

[@newdivide9882]

Does it actually attract spiders like that one post on the internet floating around for years has said?

[@stevengreen9536]

@@newdivide9882 I seriously doubt it.

[@v3rde776]

It almost seems like another North Korea situation going on. "it's great over here look"

[@kamilkozowski105]

It looks like North Korea because Turkmenistan is basically NK of central Asia

[@AncientRylanor69]

"almost" nothing it IS the middle east North Korea

[@kathy2940]

However, it is common knowledge that Turkmenistan is an extremely repressive country led by a dictatorship that has been widely criticized for its human rights record.

[@RetroRift.]

It's not common knowledge, because I didnt know, but still this place looks pretty nice to live in, you can even record it so I am impressed

[@Abeahdieheoidjdhksowwjjw]

@@RetroRift.it’s beautiful but suffers under a bad government kinda like most countries in the world

[@studio107bgallery4]

Worse than the United States?

[@rgCA_01123]

​@@studio107bgallery4 look up Yeonmi Park's story. It's horrific.

[@TheMavosa]

​@@studio107bgallery4 if you believe the US is on the same level as this type of government, you must never level your room

[@deathblade8107]

"President" My brother in christ that's a dictator

[@TheTioram]

True that man doesn’t deserve the veneer of legitimacy. You cannot polish a turd

[@coc235]

That's just your opinion. His official title is president.

[@Arnavkadam9966]

​@@coc235 I mean hea acting like a dictator

[@justincase5002]

@@coc235 There are absolutely no dictators in the world by your statement because a dictator is not an official title since like 100BC. Turkmenistan being a dictatorship is not just someone's opinion, it's a scientific (historical) fact.

[@coc235]

@@justincase5002 This doesn't make calling him president wrong

[@DesusChristus]

guy witnesses a strict dictatorship first hand “i loved my time here so far“

[@RikaMakara]

The naivety of his privilege. 🤮

[@LalalandLizzy]

Spoken from the privilege of knowing he’ll be leaving.

[@dolphsantitho5301]

🤣🤣

[@merrygrammarian1591]

They made him say that

[@QAZ-OMEN]

To be fair. I've had enough of the people in my country. A place with no people would feel like a dream.

[@IminHIGHpursuitofthelivingGod]

What's weird is a vendor, who's buying your items when there are no people around? What they just sit out there all day waiting for a tourist.

[@1003JustinLaw]

People share N. Korea horror stories because there are actually more people that visits N. Korea than Turkmenistan. People who break the rules in N. Korea goes through shit but stories do make it back out to the West. People who break the rules in Turkmenistan just disappear because there won't be anyone to tell the story.

[@never_give_up90]

Yep! People can disappear anywhere in those areas but camera man never dies!

[@ostrovskiartur]

Belarus

[@john.premose]

Sounds like florida

[@never_give_up90]

@@ostrovskiartur what about Belarus?

[@Alexandra_Indina]

​@@never_give_up90Belarus is a dictatorship. That's it.

[@miklosholloszabo]

Let's be clear... It's nice but disgusting. It's a horrible dictatorship where the people are suffering

[@jjackieo31]

What people 😅

[@Yulia.chandrika]

Where are the people thou?

[@Yulia.chandrika]

@thomasandrewclifford aah wow! It is for them to not see what happens with the actual inhabited places? What a waist of money to create such luxury hotels etc, keep employees there and all that to just make a show!

[@missapodysis]

absolutely valid to find appreciation in the people, just be verrrry careful of the gov't

[@kx_xx]

@thomasandrewcliffordthis. all the poor people are immigrants they brought in to do the building, cleaning, etc basically an entire class of people created to serve them. they live away from where tourists go, barely make money, and live in sh*tty places.

[@RaccoonNation]

“The cars are all ordered to be white” Ahh I see the Dictator has OCD.

[@FUNKY_BUTTLOVIN]

The president had a dream that informed him that, like a black cat crossing your path, having a black car cross your path generates bad luck, and untold mountains of bad luck were constantly being created, every time a black car crossed anyone's path. They went out and just towed off all the black cars, forcing their owners to pay far too much to have them painted white in order to get them back. Presumably, whichever oligarch got fatter off of that car-painting contract persuaded the president to then go down the line with every other car color, taking all cars and holding them ransom, to be painted white at exorbitant rates, until they'd painted every car in the country white.

[@suspicioussand]

​@@FUNKY_BUTTLOVIN how can someone that stupid have so much power, like this is just ridiculous ☠️

[@asteroidrules]

​​@@FUNKY_BUTTLOVINWhich dictator was the one who made that decision? Turkmenistan has had three since gaining independence and they've all been insane in different ways. Nyazov declared that he decides who gets into heaven, banned hospitals and libraries outside of the capital city, and renamed most of the country after either himself or his mother; while his successor Berdimuhamedow was sexually obsessed with horses and Guinness world records, and released a rap song where he rhymed Turkmenistan with Turkmenistan; and they're currently in the process of transferring power to Berdimuhamedow's son who will presumably be no less despotic and weird.

[@RLucas3000]

@@asteroidrulesthe car thing was pretty recent, so horse guy? This among man other things is just the reason there is no God. It’s a (sometimes) nice myth, but that’s it. Is there some way to arrange a war between Turkmenistan and North Korea?

[@katrinajones9823]

😂

[@AceIndiana]

Bro went to a country with a dictator as insane as Kim jong un and said “there’s no nobody here and the airport has all this security for no reason!”

[@diyac9554]

“Popular swimming hole” … but no one else is there!

[@salehmohamedal-olofi196]

Exactly ! How can it be popular when nobody's there ?

[@MindfulMatters734]

Yeah he has a weird definition of 'popular'.

[@rickwrites2612]

​@@MindfulMatters734 Im sure he was told it was popular, or it's listed as being popular. It's also possible it is popular only at a certain time or holiday

[@user-wj9jm1ox8i]

@@rickwrites2612yeah they probably intentionally showed him the least popular places hence no people

[@Rose-qw2eb]

Someone once told me... "Listen to what people say... for they will always Tell on themselves!" ~ real wisdom

[@samcarmen]

That’s gives dystopian vibes. The fact that they have such nice, lavish buildings but there aren’t many people around, strict tourist rules, and WiFi and most apps blocked… yeah, something is going on underneath the surface

[@reo_1907]

it’s not even “underneath the surface”, it’s just an authoritarian dictatorship

[@kathleenchaffin2591]

I don't know! They have been a closed country for ages.. just opening up now.

[@allisonpeters1270]

A strong man dictator will do that to a country. That’s why most dystopian novels take place in dictatorships.

[@rottenchipmunk9174]

Because Turkmenistan is the worst dictatorship in the entire world even worse than North Korea

[@AlterRizz]

its ruled by a dictator who made everything for him and his family. Move a bit out of tourist places and you will see poor people lives. Also women are not allowed to drive there

[@Swampsterr]

"it's got this weird and eerie feeling" it's called a dictatorship ☠️

[@majohladky3249]

Clean streets.... What a terrible country

[@artebax9966]

​@@majohladky3249🧠🤏

[@MegaAtOh]

you're the same person who accepted years of lockdown.walked around with your face covered 😷😷😷😷and took an idiot juice 💉💉💉💉💉because *democracy*

[@Cack_Jooper]

​@@majohladky3249 Brother it's because no one can live there. Whether it be prices or they aren't allowed to.

[@td2222]

Proof? Oh wait you people don't do proof when it's the middle east.

[@franklinauguste415]

This looks like one of those crazy sitcom episodes were the group is going to be brainwashed until the skeptical friend snaps them all out of it and they excape😂😂😂.

[@kronicassault1374]

Escape*

[@franklinauguste415]

@@kronicassault1374 wow thanks so much a s s-ault 1374.

[@Saber23]

This is literally just how America is but the people aren’t completely deluded about it, it’s ironic to see all these Westerners complain in their infinite hypocrisy

[@Saber23]

@@kronicassault1374 well Turkmenistan had to keep the whites out somehow

[@grahambrown1980]

@@Saber23At least it can never become a dictatorship, because their constitution contains something called the Second Amendment. That’s for limited government, because power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

[@moldy_chips7030]

When you build a lavish, extraordinary city but it’s in a single player world

[@Vario69]

Me in terraria

[@NIROSAN19]

hahahahahhaha

[@inotoni6148]

Instead of going to Europe, Syrian, Iraqi and Afghan migrants could go there. It is a Muslim country after all!

[@hestonworld5389]

My average GMOD sandbox experience

[@admaanhason7410]

​@@inotoni6148 Why are you spamming that useless comment?

[@sumuqh]

“Popular swimming hole” Popular among whom ?

[@netta96]

Ikr

[@corpsehandler5321]

ghosts, probably

[@itsrasalhague]

The camels

[@sumanvicky2121]

Fishes

[@lalinmoon3610]

i liked how this comment has "911" likes 😅

[@samanthawoods8000]

It's uncomfortable to watch someone treat a dictatorship like a cool, hole-in-the-wall restaurant.

[@zacurrya9485]

Does look pretty nice though, they just need more people outside

[@callnight1441]

Whats worse is I once saw someone do pretty much the same with North Korea. They even gave it the same "eerie feeling" review thar this guy did

[@mohammeduzair7796]

Places like UAE etc are also dictatorship but are filled with people

[@SailorxD]

Yeah, the point of it it's to look cool for the foreigners. And the local people live in hell ​@@zacurrya9485

[@ValaAssistant]

welcome to capitalist hypocracy

[@FabianVanL]

I was there in 2018. I would describe Ashgabat as "Las Vegas meets North Korea"

[@SmokescreenTfp]

when the Bad Meets Evil - Eminem

[@SmokescreenTfp]

when the Bad Meets Evil - Eminem

[@SmokescreenTfp]

when the Bad Meets Evil - Eminem

[@dookierecordz]

the USA is worse

[@shaneemanuelle6243]

I cycled across Turkmenistan in 2014, from Uzbekistan to Iran, on a transit visa, so could go alone. 47 degrees C every day; cool at night. Had to cover 500 km in three days, so some serious cycling. Didn’t see another foreigner, but did meet plenty of locals. Camped three nights, once on the desert sand, once amongst some scrub and finally at the edge of a farm field. Stopped to get get fuel for my cooking stove and the total came to about 8 US cents for half a litre. People’s shared watermelon, plov, liver and bread with me. Visited a market in Turkmenabat, the ancient city of Merv and stopped at several roadside restaurants for tea and something to drink. Definitely an odd place, but not too odd after visiting Uzbekistan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan beforehand. Learn Russian if you want to visit this part of the world.

[@mericusta1988]

Do you have a blog or vlog?

[@aiyulee6366]

Wow awesome way to travel man

[@bribriibribrii]

Really interesting :) ty for sharing

[@gethriel]

What a mooch. They really could have used a few SCRAPS from your abundance - but no, you're more than willing to pillage the already pillaged.

[@fungoose2195]

​@@gethriel bro what, not everyone shares the same neo liberalist capitalist view of the world. you're society drives you apart from your own people.

[@murilovsilva]

"There, I said I loved it here. Can you please release my family and give me back my passport back now?"

[@infiniteinspiration1628]

Omg gold 😅

[@infiniteinspiration1628]

How on earth 🌎 did he film there and post on utube?

[@Serenityisdestined]

@@infiniteinspiration1628 He recorded it and then did this thing called edit ✍🏽

[@HeyAHappyHuman]

​@@SerenityisdestinedI think they just meant the recording part

[@salamander337]

"And my back up data you took from my camera, you know, of the real reasons I hated here?" 😂

[@Mel-pb4nn]

Looks like the perfect vacation spot for someone with social anxiety

[@GodWildheart]

On God

[@Sarah-rp2po]

Right!

[@debbiemerls]

Yeah I’m not sure being simewhere like this is helpful to anyone’s anxiety

[@WidowedWrld]

If having no free will helps you cope sure go right ahead

[@riverstyx7251]

Yeah no, this place is like Soviet North Korea. The locals aren’t out because they don’t want to be surveilled (even more)

[@rmeredithm]

“Popular swimming hole” … with no one there. I don’t think we have the same definition of “popular.”

[@sinep8008]

those places are like a room a kid cleaned. It looks good for the guests. But you know if they checked the closet they would see the mess.

[@karlagarcia1851]

😂😂😅😅😅🎯

[@aswini4222]

Dictator mom! 😂

[@user-oy8se2yh7b]

Spoked like a lion

[@Zalfabets]

That's such a great analogy

[@w415800]

It's worse than that, at least the kid gets the room back when the guests leave, these places are not lived-in at all, there were no evacuation, the people simply lives elsewhere.

[@verified_tinker1818]

Blink twice if you're held at gunpoint.

[@musicisthefoodofthesoul]

"there's just sort of a weird and eerie fee--" Bro got shot mid sentence 💀

[@Cb22075]

lmao X-D

[@otantix1029]

😂😂

[@brendatomlinson]

@@musicisthefoodofthesoulI love dark humor 😂

[@LAila-qf4ww]

LOLLLLLLL 😝

[@yukine6327]

I am from Turkmenistan and let me tell you this. All those KZbinrs always go to the most far away places that locals don't visit. But truth is that there are plenty people in Ashgabat. They just don't show u this because it will ruin the "mysterious" image. Go visit local bazars and markets u will see so many people. And he also visited it in winter when locals definitely don't go for the cave pool or Darwaza

[@wendyamsterdam8482]

You left?

[@yukine6327]

​@@wendyamsterdam8482nope I live in the capital

[@MsZephyra]

I thought you wouldn't have internet access??

[@fleurelise997]

​@@MsZephyra Clearly the people do. Not everything you see in videos is entirely true.

[@leeroyjenkins05]

​@@MsZephyradon't be naive

[@619Slipk]

That guide is like Joo Dee from Avatar the Last Airbender

[@cherierussell5017]

On a trip to Lake Laogai 😵‍💫😱

[@shizukagozen777]

🤣🤣🤣

[@renren981]

Thats what it reminded me of! Bas Sing Se 😂😂

[@Robert043]

Turkmenistan❌ North Korea Ultra Pro Max✅

[@AroAce_Psychopath]

This is both funny and painful

[@Itsdasummer32]

😂😂😂

[@InternationaLChefSue]

😮

[@A_random_american_flag]

It's better than north korea

[@bibule]

@@A_random_american_flag *wheeze*

[@CallMeGailyn]

The real question is, who is doing all that dusting?

[@maryamcoco3683]

😂

[@rookinblue]

Nobody is there so there wouldn’t really be dust maybe once a year max they dust it

[@CT-uv8os]

Roomba?

[@CinderellaRaptured333]

I’m a housekeeper. I was wondering the same thing! Everything I look at, I think of in terms of cleaning, lol! That mall!!!!! Good grief!!!

[@CallMeGailyn]

@@rookinblue Dust doesn't need company.

[@agnesfox8349]

The word for it is "creepy"

[@linmonash1244]

He pretends he's a seasoned traveller and then goes to a country without first checking it's politics and culture? This is the embodiement of FEAR. It's so dangerous to go to these places. Not only for the visitor (you take a photo of something you shouldn't and can wind up in jail - with no trial and no release date and years later some diplomatic solution MIGHT be found.) Remember the US guy who -for fun - stole a poster off a hotel wall in Nth Korea? # ALSO really Dangerous for LOCALS - who don't want ot go anywhere NEAR ANY outside visitor - for the VERY Justified FEAR their own Governement will accuse them of "collaborating" with 'Western Spies', merely for the 'crime' of smiling at one, or exchanging a few words. Not worth your life - or the life of your family. Te locals who were selected to interact with your were highly vetted, scrutinised and most probably stil terrified anything could be misinterpreted.

[@OrezEdit]

It is where world loaders meet

[@thewebheadgt]

The real word is Hardcore dictatorship.

[@B_Bodziak]

​@@linmonash1244 that's why you're required to have a guide with you anytime you leave your hotel room. The bigger question is how does the country receive money to build lavish hotels, monuments, eyc

[@linmonash1244]

@@B_Bodziak Oil?

[@christabellelysander4392]

Oh wow! I've never heard anyone talk about Turkmen before. So cool! Thank you so much for sharing and enlightening us!!

[@Besafe782]

The airport is full of security guards so the locals don’t leave 😅

[@zellz91]

They'vr already left to Russia and other CIS countries

[@PhoenixBlacke]

Lmao you goin to he11 😂

[@FUNKY_BUTTLOVIN]

A past president made them create this resort city thing on their coast, inspired by Las Vegas. It's a place for tourism, but they only allow, I think it was 10,000 or 20,000 visitors in each year, almost all of whom are in the gas/oil business and there on a work trip

[@julireep278]

As screwed up as the US is now, I'm still thankful to live here and not THERE! 😬 Oh, it's absolutely beautiful, don't get me wrong! But that place is messed up on too many levels! Just watching this made me afraid for you, even knowing you already made it out safely 😅 Prayers for the locals...no telling what type of horrors they have to live through. 😢

[@georgyekimov4577]

there is a joke in russia "Last one to leave Omsk airport please turn off the lights." Guess here there is a similar situation

[@sprites4ever482]

The previous ruler of Turkmenistan was the most cartoonish dictator imaginable. The current guy is his dentist, who got the position after the previous guy died from a heart attack outside the capital. (He banned all doctors from working outside the capital.)

[@thedigitalodometer945]

I thought the current guy was the previous ruler’s son?

[@sprites4ever482]

@@thedigitalodometer945 Maybe the son of the dentist?

[@surrealtastic]

Shit keeps getting crazier

[@suspicioussand]

​@@thedigitalodometer945 maybe the real son was the dentist we made along the way

[@mantisbrains]

Lol,this is funny

[@notadaytrader]

Ah, Turkmenistan. It’s “known for its archaeological ruins including those at Nisa and Merv, major stops along the ancient trade route the Silk Road”, and also for having “an upper-middle class in-come status.” Not known for its “Unitary presidential republic under a totalitarian hereditary dictatorship” government and being a “repressive authoritarian state where political rights and civil liberties are almost completely denied in practice.”

[@amymata8995]

I just read this on google earth 😂😂😂😂

[@JL-cr1lr]

After Silk Road I could’ve sworn you were describing Singapore 😮

[@TrojansFirst]

It's crazy to visit a place where you have zero rights.

[@Raw_Empirical_Truth]

Ahhhh the familiar names from fake history

[@mariahardy1201]

Yikes

[@cactusking4045]

Bro has negative survival instincts

[@SebHaarfagre]

When you're only allowed to see certain places, you *KNOW* it's *REAL* bad all the places you aren't allowed.

[@katsumontenerudorijji4365]

It's cause stupid tourists cause problems wherever they go

[@The_Crucible714]

It was the gravestones with the horns for me.

[@awitherspoon3799]

You mean like here in America

[@codetuber3659]

@awitherspoon3799 No, nothing like that. As someone born in America, you are extremely fortunate, no matter your economic situation. Here, and in other places such as Iran, you can't go abywhere without the chance of being watched by the government, and have nearly no freedoms, especially as a woman. Please stop playing the role of the victim as you have no idea how good you have it.

[@awitherspoon3799]

@@codetuber3659 it's the same everywhere the government controls the people no matter where you're from yea I can move around freely but we are still controlled not playing victim jus stating facts

[@prettylittlelexi]

I thought he was going to say, “the president requires all cars and buildings to be white. Tourists must also be white..” lmao!

[@Latviešu_Amēlija]

Your obsessed

[@angelit161]

Weird.

[@PureMMA]

Ewe.

[@Kknah91]

I thought the same thing 😂

[@admaanhason7410]

​@@Kknah91 Casual racism

[@rogergriffin9893]

Bro: when people there make the wrong kind of remarks, they just disappear off the face of the earth without a trace. That weird eerie feeling is called totalitarianism.

[@Utubeiswack]

And the Republican elite want this in America. Project 2025 and a strongman president.

[@dookierecordz]

the USA is worse

[@cerdaspediaindonesia8926]

This is giving the vibe of that beautiful online RPG game lobby, but nobody is online.

[@iyxec]

Airport has more security guards than passengers 😂

[@FUNKY_BUTTLOVIN]

They built a crazy state of the art Airport with a giant like falcon structure spanning its entire roof... for a country that doesn't let anybody leave, and tightly controls who can come in

[@iyxec]

@@FUNKY_BUTTLOVIN it's madness at its peak.

[@FUNKY_BUTTLOVIN]

@iyxec it's just wild, when Putin came to power, he seemed for a while like he was thinking about doing the right thing... he started executing the oligarchs. Then he realized that, now that they're in fear for their lives, he can just make them all give him half and be stinking rich But no consumer goods would ever feel so good to me as to actually stifling corruption, plucking the very worst out of society and just ending them, Robin Hood'ing all they had, and actually elevating my millions of countrymen. Actually being loved by the masses... that'd be the best life. But none of them have the imagination to see it

[@Browniera_]

​@@FUNKY_BUTTLOVINbasically Soviet version of north korea

[@dookierecordz]

the USA is worse

[@jacobpeacy4003]

Dude is so innocent he doesnt even realize he just went to a dictatorship

[@ArthurMorgan18993]

Nah this dude is playing dumb. Probably got paid a little to spread this propaganda lol

[@TurkmenBasmacy]

​@ArthurMorgan18993 nah man he's for real. It's heaven for Foreigners here in Tkm, bro❤ come visit us🇹🇲🇹🇲🇹🇲🫶🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇷🇦🇿🇧🇷🇮🇹🇺🇲💙💛

[@EdwardRock1]

“Innocent”? More like naive or ignorant, like most Americans

[@Vario69]

​@@ArthurMorgan18993I don't think they'd pay him to call their country "weird" or "eerie" -__- if it were propaganda, you'd know

[@calvinnickel9995]

There’s plenty of dictatorships that are far more relaxed and welcoming. It’s actually quite interesting when you visit a place like Cuba or Vietnam it feels more “free” than most western countries. It’s only when you do something that you’re not supposed to that you find out why they are oppressed.

[@ItsTarotAndBeyond]

Dude entered hell and rated it 4.5 stars 😅

[@robertlombardo8437]

Well I mean... Satan WILL openly rule the world unopposed before Christ returns. Crap like this shows that it is not only possible but probable.

[@michaelberna987]

Based solely on the few seconds in this video, I'd rather go to that airport than LAX. I'd also rather drive here than drive on Los Angeles roads.

[@amiralihoseini-n9e]

this country still has the soviet sprit and all those crap

[@watchr740]

Not sure about this place, but that’s the thing about Islamic Extremist Leaders in Countries like Gaza and the Palestinian region, they live in opulence while the people live in poverty.

[@prachisaini1]

​@@watchr740 Very much True

[@daydream7084]

Im from Kazakhstan, and even didn't know about it! Omg, a bit confused. Maybe you just came not in a good time, or in a cold time. I don't know, but the situation a quite similar, when in our capital Astana especially at the cold time there is nobody. In our capital Astana there are also few people among the huge square and architecture. And many tourists are surprised, I thought that it couldn't be worse than in our capital. But I saw Turkmenistan and now I'm a little confused. Compared to Turkmenistan, it turns out that in our Astana there are still people walking around 😂

[@emimahmoud2403]

So wher are they?

[@Zephridus]

​@@emimahmoud2403I can't believe he really compared the situation in Astana and Ashgabat. In Astana people can live freely as much as they want. In Ashgabat it's clear that the capital is dead and most of the people don't live there

[@NatureSymphonicMusic]

It's really difficult for tourists to get a visa to travel there. Not to put anyone off, but it would've been challenging for him to get into the country, once you get there, you're under strict surveillance.

[@TheDecafec4]

😂

[@jajajaja2606]

Seriously, but why? It looks nice, but does it have any death camps, rampant cannibalism or other atrocities? Tbh I doubt, but why on earth would they do that?

[@kirakira9906]

​@@jajajaja2606Nice to visit not to live probably

[@fungoose2195]

​@@jajajaja2606paranoid post soviet dictatorship. a goverment with a single leader has to keep its cards close to its chest. dictatorships rely on the ignorance or satisfaction of its people, its difficult to control ignorance when foriegners are rampant.

[@washabe]

​@@jajajaja2606It's the countries that have that sort of thing that look like this. The big fancy city is empty because it's just for show. Any opposition to the government leads to life in prison, people get arrested for having the wrong religion, confessions are tortured out of suspects, people disappear regularly. Journalists found tortured to death. Labor camps. It's rough.

[@gregorygan2077]

It's not a guide, its a guard

[@ehwodjksnx]

,,guide" probably just makes sure you dont ask too many questions, dont go to the restricted areas and dont break any weird rules

[@rapturescoming]

😂I’m originally from there and thanking God for being able to leave almost 20 years ago - it wasn’t like that back then though I’m surprised they let you in to begin with.. getting tourist visa is a nightmare, especially for Americans

[@Elyorbek-u5o]

Where do you live now after escaping from Turkmenistan?

[@danarzechula3769]

He's promoting them😢

[@twokidsintrenchcoat]

Did you come to Turkey after leaving Turkmenistan? I know a lot of Turkmeni people that moved to Turkey for one reason or the other. They never talk about how horrible their government is tho, maybe cuz I never bring it up?

[@MyPsAndQs]

Scram, officer. Jk​@@Elyorbek-u5o

[@Bastuun]

why yall wanna know where the person is. maybe he specifically doesn't want to say as a dissident. bait...

[@jebes909090]

ok thats pretty wierd but must have been one heck of a trippy experience. its almost like the entire country was your own personal theme park?!

[@youwilllaugh3136]

I've watched a documentary on Turkmenistan just yesterday. It's a country suffering from a totalitarian dictatorship that's worse than in north Korea. The people there are helpless to Rebel against the opressing regime and 70% of the population is unemployed. They are forced to do cotton harvesting each year no matter their rank or diploma and never get payed for it. Even those working in the gaz industry which is the leading money making industry of the country are not payed well. And everyone is forbidden from leaving the country

[@LulaMae21]

That's totally different from what another comment said. If that documentary was on a site like Netflix, take it with a grain of salt lol.

[@TayWoode]

@@LulaMae21 actually the comments are saying it’s a dictatorship if you actually be bothered to read them.

[@acanimatics906]

Was at a one week long seminar on "propaganda" and they brought up current news coverage on Palestine, some countries aren't as truthful on the situation as they'd like you to believe as well as the anti-europe sentiments of Russian news, talked some about the ways dicatorships in the past influenced people before transitioning to how the ones today do and then talked about Turkmenistan. I don't know about the cotton farming but it's definitely one of the most blatant dictator ships I've ever seen. We saw footage of their leader standing in their Parlament, he said what he wants to happen and evryone sitting there just quietly notted down what he decided (literally dictating) and then clapped. None of the "politicians" sitting there said a single thing! Literally what are they there for??? More like a Parlament full of Secretaries for him then ministers and politicians.

[@PolishBehemoth]

Its amazing wjat the fruits of communism brings.

[@MrZZooh]

Sounds about right.

[@faerveldir]

You know what's crazy? His visitors visa probably cost upwards of $10k

[@knives5964]

That's not shocking tho

[@kamikazeabe-ru8735]

WHAT!?

[@B1gBossMan]

​@@knives5964if you've travelled to the US or UK, you'll know that's crazy

[@MrsCourt]

@@knives5964I’m shocked!!

[@dookierecordz]

the USA is worse

[@twokidsintrenchcoat]

Turkmenistan is NOT as bad as North Korea. For one, there is a LOT of immigration out of the country, meaning citizens _are_ allowed to leave. Its difficult to go through the airport but you can bribe just about anybody. People i know have all left because of the lack of employment or to improve their life quality, no one i know has actually *escaped* the country, most just up and leave. They even return every few years to refresh their passport and visa. I even know people saving money so they can go back and build a house there. I doubt a North Korean citizen would ever go back. They are one of the Turic countries invaded and assimilated by Russia. Their surnames were changed and their graves were destroyed. Now they live under soviet dictatorship but not nearly as bad as North Korea. Also they have free gas but thats really irrelevant if you live under a severe dictatorship. They also do have internet and can access apps illegally, social media is very popular. Anyway its really sad that the citizens have to immigrate and the regime is horrible, also completely a result of ww1 and ww2. Just wanted to give some info.

[@naryshkinvitaliy]

В Туркмении не советская диктатура. Там скорее всего диктатура Бердымухаммедовых. Они единолично правят страной

[@Danni696]

Thank you comrade.

[@christianfreedom-seeker2025]

Hardly the result of either war. Think "mad dictator" give responsibility to where it belongs.

[@thedarknesst5995]

It's not bad, you just have to bribe people at the airport to leave? what???

[@gabrielsalvemini7489]

but at least Turkmenistan is moving forward and not dirty.

[@DamonSlater]

Yep, been to Ashgabat and it is very empty with very little access to the rest of the world. However, it does have great architecture, history, culture, friendly people, and good food. A lot of great places for sigh seeing.

[@ZonnexNecton]

The uploader is super clueless lol “Man, this controlled dictatorship country is surprisingly empty. I love it here. My friend seems to be missing though. Ah well.”

[@timopper5488]

“My friend seems to be missing though. Ah well…. Must’ve gotten a free upgrade to a VIP suite!” 🤣🤣🤣

[@ThePotaToh]

Think again. Is that your judgment of a person from a super short video? And do you really think that a person who's been to over 130 countries is that clueless? Look at the way the script is written. For eg, "we were the _only ones_ there, including this _popular_ swimming hole." Isn't the wording intentionally weird?

[@timopper5488]

@@ThePotaToh If he was being subtle, he was being too subtle.

[@thomasfisher763]

​@timopper5488 why would he want to put himself on the naughty list? He likes traveling strange parts of the world. If he releases a video like "here's all the horrible facts of this country I visited that they don't want anyone to know!" He's probably not going to be allowed back, to others like it, or worse. He knows we will be able to put 2 and 2 together so he just speaks in an objective, curious tone. He can still go to the places, get the footage, tell the objective facts, and leave the obvious uo to us to discern. I'd rather he does it that way rather than just end up in a hole in the ground somewhere after his first 2-3 videos lol

[@dookierecordz]

the USA is worse

[@914bimma]

That’s the nicest North Korea I’ve ever seen

[@meteorknight999]

Its nice Cause it isnt NK Its a great nation, that this merican is tarnishing its a land locked poor country that built its first modern city for kids whose parents lived in villages

[@pinkifloyd7867]

😂😊

[@raviolibirb8009]

Turkmenistan is basically just less popular version of North Korea

[@jacksmith-mu3ee]

That's india

[@dishashiromani2586]

And you are jackass​@@jacksmith-mu3ee

[@Subculturesly]

My thoughts, exactly.

[@elizabethm7163]

Didn't realize North Korea was "popular."

[@IAnonymous3]

@@elizabethm7163just means everyone knows what it is worldwide. Most people have probably never heard of Turkmenistan or have any clue where it is. They all know North Korea.

[@МирославМорозов-ж4й]

Turmkmens even need visas to other former soviet countries, while people from other republics dont. That tells a lot how strict it is and how hard it is for people there to travel.

[@Dschannel7]

Turkmenistan is just a better version of North Korea

[@joeabosssands2481]

We have more freedom nowadays then you silly democrat voting Americans

[@appleeyefunkky]

lol😂

[@MS.independent8934]

Oooh really

[@manciamusic]

The city's architecture and art is based on sun worshiping and Freemasonry principles. This city is supposed to be the city where the new prophet that going to unite all religions will reside . AKA Antichrist

[@sattasana7753]

I see

[@MaBlose.]

POV: when the president tells everyone “We are expecting visitors tomorrow!”☠️

[@someguy2744]

Everybody put on your invisibility cloaks so that he thinks that nobody lives here.

[@StamperWendy]

Everything & everyone look great, when you can't see them

[@theyclosechannelsthatspeak428]

😂😂

[@Hldmyhnd.1]

@@someguy2744right 😂

[@awetistic5295]

As an introvert, my dream is not a dystopian dictatorship where a guide/guard follows my every step to make sure I don't have to disappear.

[@loranlomiller54]

As an extreme extrovert, I second that.

[@bobhadababy6970]

Fellow introvert here, yeah, I would definitely pass on that opportunity if one could possibly even consider that an opportunity. Like a ninja in the night, if I couldn't slip out of the bathroom window, then that guide/guard better hope their teeth are on hinges. Because it's just like what Lenny Kravitz sang about, "I've got to get away. " Animals, they're cool. But, the two-legged variety, more often than not, simply fails to understand our thought process. To me, it's as if we carry around a big box all day, and ¾ of what we take in inadvertently gets thrown into the box. Only to later on get somewhere and start unpacking and sorting everything out. Or maybe that's just me. 🤷😏✌🏻

[@HK_on_YT]

​@@bobhadababy6970Great analogy! May I ask if you have 'hypersensitivity' (i.e. being sensitive to information from your senses) or even a sensory processing disorder (basically an extreme form of hypersensitivty)? I am asking because I have the hypothesis that the difference between introverts and extroverts is their sensitivity to information from their senses where introverts take in more information from their senses, and thus can get overwhelmed at processing so much information in the moment, which is why they need downtime to post-process that information. I myself have a sensory processing disorder and I am extremely introverted. I do need to unpack that box after social interactions, but introverted activities do not fill that box.

[@wheresmyoldname]

Finally! An introvert with common sense! These other morons are calling it "paradise" just because they're introverts... you have a brain and that makes me relieved, humanity is not completely doomed just yet.

[@royalfun1031]

Ye

[@bernardakoito]

Now we know where to go in a zombie apocalypse 😂

[@awilborn100]

This makes me fear for their people. 😢

[@kimcham9949]

What people? Where are they?

[@Tortilla.Reform]

@@kimcham9949Because the country Turkmenistan is under an oppressive tyrannical dictatorship, similar to North Korea.

[@kimcham9949]

@@Tortilla.Reform So, where is everybody if all the places are empty?

[@Tortilla.Reform]

@@kimcham9949 The person in this video didn’t visit the entirety of the country, only the beautiful places he was allowed to visit with the mandatory state monitor tour guide So everyone else is probably in all the terrible places the government doesn’t allow you to see, the way North Korea does it

[@kimcham9949]

@@Tortilla.Reform 👍🏾 Ahhh... Now, I understand. ☺️ Thanks! 😀

[@FatedMusic]

"Popular swimming hole" and "no one here" don't really go together lol. Super interesting though, had no idea about this place.

[@Ondolite]

It was irony, yoo div.

[@Leytonstone09]

How is that ironic ?

[@Ondolite]

@@Leytonstone09 I almost bought a house in Leytonstone. Yoo would never have got me so almost was good.

[@windfromfelixia]

wait you had no idea about Turkmenistan existing?

[@Isaidwhatisaiddear]

Influencers get my last nerve. He really treated it like a little hidden speakeasy bar. The people are miserable there. 🤦🏾‍♀️🙄

[@GamingXenZen]

He probably had a gun to him through the entire video XD

[@monember2722]

Their misery, he cannot help. He is traveling and discovering for himself.

[@TheChampionofEnki]

Yeah, just because other people are miserable, doesn't mean he has to be. 🤷🏿‍♂️​@@monember2722

[@MinstrelSentFromAnotherLand]

I doubt they’d let him post anything controversial about their country 😂 besides I’m sure he knows it’s a gnarly country, if you do.

[@norse1585]

What's he supposed to do, organize a coup and topple the regime? I hope you keep this energy for travelers who go to other countries with corrupt governments

[@serpentlaw5961]

If its empty, its a building program to redirect population elsewhere to that place.

[@Sleipnirseight]

This feels dystopian and sad as hell.

[@thegamingfox6540]

It is.

[@Catheist]

1984 big brother watches everything

[@cchutney348]

Not feels, is.

[@EminencePhront]

Turkmenistan feels like some 13 year old kid designed it in an advanced version of Civilization.

[@ornitorincodigenova4260]

Yeah, but the people who designed this are adults

[@dmitriystoyanov933]

Yeah, because they have funniest and stupid dictator in the world. You can search "dictator of Turkmenistan", stupidly absurd person

[@windfromfelixia]

Its like Mongolia but with North Korean law

[@mirali3405]

How does the society function? Offices, markets, banks, schools, hospitals, transportation, etc.? Something is missing in this video.

[@MermaidMakes]

The thing that is missing is his mention that it is a dictatorship, and they only take tourists to certain parts that are designed for tourists. They make their money on giant oil reserves and give none of it to their people. We don’t really know how their society functions , because they don’t allow us to see it.

[@ufo717212]

They have abundant oil and gas.

[@Penelope_777]

Dictatorship. The citizens live on cramped spaces and bad condition houses. This is for the tourists, not for the people living there

[@youtubewanderer3347]

It doesn't. They just happen to be very rich in resources.

[@grimsgraveyard3598]

They are a speck on the map with natural resources empires want like crude oil. So the dictator and his circle own everything and control everyone.

[@um2913]

“Tourists who do visit are required to have a guide with them at all times” There is no war in Ba Sing Se fr

[@MrTrees77]

What's really sad is that like the Turkmenistan /Kazakhstan and like Central Asian areas have such Rich and unique cultures, but not very many people get to see or enjoy it because of how authoritarian and backwards their leaders are.

[@halalisanidlamini7029]

Maybe it their way to preserve their unique cultures

[@hull9181]

Shouldn’t be allowed to go everywhere anyway

[@zaure28]

actually, in Kazakhstan it's not really like in Turkmenistan. Here are lots of tourists and citizens almost everywhere

[@titaniumsalmon3238]

Is it truly backwards? Look at the luxury the Turkmen enjoy.

[@goddess.in.infinity]

Becouse ussr destroyed it

[@AromaBlue]

He met some "locals". You know, like the ones tourists in North Korea meet.

[@theyclosechannelsthatspeak428]

😂

[@blue-vu1ek]

He forgot that despite well marked street crossings you can't cross main streets. A guard for every corner gestures at you to take the stairs down, cross under the stree, up the stairs and out. At no time in that process did a vehicle use the street. Also, in the market is a very noticeable anti-aircraft cannon and male police/military everywhere about. People avoid interacting with foreigners for fear of arrest. And every schoolchild has a little book filled with dictates by the dictator. The kids must memorize every word. No taxis, but private citizens driving to/from errands stop and pick up passengers. My taxi driver spoke enough english that I knew he was taking his grandson to school which was nowhere near the one hotel where foreigners stay, but away we went. The other 4 passengers were obviously frightened to have me in the car. They all jumped out at the same stop.

[@grahambrown1980]

They just don’t value life there. You get shot so easily. They could throw you in the gas crater and there’s nothing you could do.

[@gabrielspricido5510]

when you started talking about how the streets are completely empty in this country, i immeadiately thought "it's Turkmenistan". i heard about it in a lecture in university last month, and the speaker, who went there, had the same experience of being one of the only people on the streets (apart from the guide who was with her). i still can't conceive how tf all the places are so deserted, like, where do people live?? what do they do in everyday life??

[@JumbooJangoo]

Thought he was gonna say, "Tourists are required to be white." 💀

[@hakeemed]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@sharonfoster7674]

😂

[@verenalai7668]

😂😂😂😂

[@wikiuser92]

Epic fail.

[@ilovejoharai]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@Drak_Thedp]

The funny thing is, it's a recent development. The country used to be like any other, they even had free gas(the country is a major gas and oil exporter). Good times lasted until the son of the former president ascended the 'throne' in around 2010. The restrictions began, people started to run away, so the restrictions got steonger. Not quite as hard as North Korea, actually. People can leave the country legally(yes, it's hard, but possible), and the limitations are not quite as strict.

[@kerstingravel8160]

Thank you for those background information 👌🏻

[@ca_kay]

Out of curiosity, is it a situation where they actually live pretty well off, like in a low middle class reading books for fun setting, or is it state communism?

[@Drak_Thedp]

@@ca_kay It's a pretty weird use of communism(communism is a utopian society where people harmoniously work for eachother's benefit). But I got your drift - most of the 'communism builders' end up as a dictators, has nothing to do with communism tho. From what I've heard, it's a bit weird. There are food shortages and a quarter of all population are unemployed. The magnificent resort the guy is walking around in the video is an ambitious project of the former president(whose son is the current president since 2020, yup). The locals can't afford it, the tourists aren't interested for several reasons - the sea there is cold in Jul-Aug, and the country is not that easy to get into. Unlike NK it's not a military state, so you won't just 'go missing' if you break the law. There is a kind of a middle class which consists of professionals and enrepreneurs but it's not that vast. Lots of Turkmen people go to work and live to Turkey(although it's not easy to leave, and only people older than 40 are allowed to). There are food shortages due to droughts, and the government is dealing with it in a soviet way - they ration food supplies by region. You can't just go to the capital and get some delicatessen - you'll be fined and the food confiscated by the police when you leave. All in all, people survive and live, some even thrive. The internet is very restricted, social networks especially, so the information flow is pretty scarce.

[@kkittycatkat1990]

Wow. You are severely brainwashed about China. They have uicde(s) nets off many work buildings as they were losing so many "harmonious workers". Stories are absolutely heartbreaking. You obviously don't know a thing about the huge pro--test. (Can't say too much). The level of people was huge! Sadly, because they have no or very little information incoming from the outside world; they actually probably put MAX restrictions on phones. They had no idea how close they were to fully flipping the...ones in power. Geesh, I can't say anything. Hope this comment gets through. The reason for it is also heartbreaking. You, kind sir, have fully bought into the ganda-prop. I wish I could tell you everything I know, like what happened when I searched for _that_ on the largest search engine. What _really_ goes on there. I can't even give you my very accurate sources, 2 of which are there, talking to the people and seeing everything that they are speaking about. I truly can't believe how many people think like you do. I hope you find the truth.🤞🏻👍🏻

[@Anon1gh3]

@@Drak_Thedp No, communism would be more accurately described as trying to achieve the impossible, i.e. trying to get the working class to accommodate the whole population of the world without actually paying the former or accommodating them.

[@Cubmaniac7]

This is definitely one of those places that you can imagine people finding buried in sand 2,000 years in the future after the oil and gas dry up and then assuming that it was some sort of cultural holy site for an ancient advanced society.

[@alexcisneros2980]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@theyclosechannelsthatspeak428]

😂😂😂😂

[@theblondeone7771]

Damn 😂😂😂

[@VanillaCool]

I was there on many Business Trips, its empty because on ramadan the people stay at home, after sun goes down, everyone come out. its really strange

[@JudyRichards-u4o]

It doesn't look like much fun. It looks like people are told what to do and when to do it.

[@aliasgur3342]

That happens in the west too except the governments over here use media to do it far more effectively creating the illusion of free will

[@takiyaazrin7562]

Iran Enforced 10 Discriminatory Laws 1. Women are not allowed to show their hair 2. Women are not allowed to sing 3. Women are not allowed to dance 4. Women are not allowed to divorce 5. Women are not allowed to enter stadium 6. Women are not allowed to ride motorbike 7. Women are not allowed to go overseas alone 8. Women are not allowed to join military 9. Women are not allowed to become a witness 10. Women are not allowed to become a judge

[@metroservicedapartments9909]

It's an amazing place trust I've been there and it's probably better than dubai lol❤😂 No bate to dubai or Turkmenistan

[@chancechapman365]

You’ve never been to this place or Dubai stop the 🧢

[@bert454]

Bet they have almost zero crime rate though.

[@latifx3944]

I have a friend who left Turkmenistan. The stories Ive heard from her are heartbreaking. Simple things like freedom of religion are highly restricted. Its really sad and Im sure Ive only heard the surface level from her 😢

[@youhavebeenloved.1744]

15L 4M is the complete opposite of democracy. 15L 4M and democracy can't go together. There's no such thing as religious freedom in most of these countries. Europeans protesting fR33 Palestine is the dumbest thing I've ever seen.

[@LuvBorderCollies]

Your suspicions are likely spot on. What you or I would notice as "unusual" would be so embedded in her head she doesn't notice it.

[@JLG35X]

@@6ix-Beetle Probably escaped.

[@Coco-hq8vt]

bro is witnessing a dictatorship but concerned abt why nobody else is riding the biblically accurate ferris wheel

[@LaNoire27]

ROTFLMAO 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@shavonnewman86]

😂😂😂

[@ririslvt]

biblically accurate ferris wheel HAHAHAHHAHAHAH

[@Jojo-vv9ue]

It would be lovely for a visitor who lives in a highly populated area like Hong Kong or Singapore.

[@Gunslinger1928]

You can film a horror sci fi movie in this country, there's no one there.

[@nathanbaribeau2833]

28 days later!!

[@frisco9568]

A zombie show or film

[@yt_tenshi]

North korea too

[@EverywhereMf]

​@@yt_tenshino shit💀

[@ScottBanj]

you can't really because guard may stop you​@@yt_tenshi

[@johnnymcneal5914]

I agree with him this would creep me out it reminds me of one of those end of the world movies you're the only Survivor

[@beautifulmythicalbeing]

After doing a bit of research I concluded that no American, introvert or not, would want to live here. In fact the people that live there probably don't want to live there.

[@Factsspeaktruth]

Agree..it's almost like your given a formula on how many breaths you can take 😮

[@never_give_up90]

They don't, that's why so many of them run!

[@indigochild58]

A museum city…. Are the people not allowed to go outside? Businesses and restaurants without customers??? I mean why even bother?

[@atin4353]

M not American but as an introvert, you're right. I prefer to be alone by my own will and not because of circumstances. This looks depressing.

[@Factsspeaktruth]

@@atin4353 indeed

[@GumdropLuvDragon1935]

Oh, didn't you know? Serdar Berdimuhamedow is such a jokester! He loves pranking visitors, especially ones that arrive with cameras rolling. His favorite prank is getting 99% of the population to hide from you on the day of arrival

[@joypatrick6802]

Thanks for the info. I'm happy you got out safely. You said quite a bit without saying much....

[@Forest24gump]

creepy when there is no sign of life

[@user-ki4xw2rb8q]

It seems like that city is used just for tourists

[@Mahlak_Mriuani_Anatman]

If only i had the power

[@daisyliwan5278]

Why no people?

[@Nekole1]

I agree. Very creepy.

[@diamondgirlal4876]

It looks extremely expensive…where is the money coming from if no one is around really working???

[@ithilpalladium]

They have one of the world's largest natural gas reserves

[@yellowscarlightningscream8347]

The west has turned a blind eye and never brings up their dictator because Turkmenistan sells gas to Europe and Asia. Just how greedy they are.

[@turolretar]

American taxpayers, thanks guys we really appreciate it

[@educational4434]

Like Russia, it's a gas station masquerading as a country

[@ivankaseljanka]

​@@educational4434and here is you, posing as a person, whilst being a twat

[@thesecondcoming6875]

The building's seem to be very cutting edge, mixed with the atmosphere of North Korea? I wonder what other secrets Turkmenistan holds under the surface of what we get to see?

[@thefearmongerofficial420]

_describes a horrifying dictatorship_ Yo, this place is so sick. Maybe a bit eerie but...

[@fuerstmetternich1997]

You havent been there. There is nothing horrifying about it.

[@FP-ih1lu]

@@fuerstmetternich1997or maybe you haven’t been to a democratic country

[@beccaO0906]

@@fuerstmetternich1997 this guy was a tourist so of course he got to see the very best. The country is in economic distress with a severe food crisis. There are numerous human rights violations. The reality beyond what they let outsiders see is what’s horrifying.

[@fuerstmetternich1997]

@@beccaO0906 There are human right violations everywhere. If tourists arent targeted why would I care?

[@cchutney348]

​@@fuerstmetternich1997The absolute state of you.

[@diamondgirlal4876]

A guide at all times! Did you have to share your hotel room with this full time prison guard???

[@dillbert4084]

There is no war in Ba Sing Se

[@wilpalkia]

Even when you go to 💩, they will hand you the toilet paper * wink wink *

[@nunyabidness6045]

​@@wilpalkiasounds like Diddy's house

[@MikeHawks-Long9]

@@nunyabidness6045diddy in Turkmenistan would’ve been different damnnnnn

[@MikeHawks-Long9]

@@nunyabidness6045diddy in Turkmenistan sounds like a movie I’d not wanna watch

[@cardsgal89]

It's like the city itself is the resort, and only the rich have access to it.

[@peacebeyondpassion2]

They can have it. Only God knows what goes on there!😢

[@sarahpeterson9422]

​@@peacebeyondpassion2 Things only the rich have been caught doing.

[@jugjames6835]

Like Dubai

[@aliceputt3133]

If only the rich have access and no one is there, no one is rich.

[@MrStark-up6fi]

Dubai is like that

[@adelina5494]

15 years ago it was such a beautiful, welcoming unique place. I was born and raised there - so many different cultures in one place it seemed borderline magical. and now it's a creepy weird place and all people are fleeing