Patrick Johnston’s Reviews > Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan > Status Update

Lmao these eastern block countries are literally just dictator paradises, where “leader” almost always try to embody themselves as a deity’s among the population, shows how fragile these lost Soviet states were, and interestingly enough, also shows the satisfied mediocrity of Soviet living