Visit Turkmenistan
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[Turkmenistan](link
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Been there twice in the 1990s. Creepy place; a police state that made Brezhnev’s USSR feel like a tourist resort. Pictures and slogans glorifying the then President/Tyrant, Niyazov, everywhere.
Food in restaurants was toxic.
Customs officials tried to shake you down upon entry and exit for any items in your baggage that caught their eye.
I recall that culvert covers were often missing in the streets and sidewalks in Ashgabat. As there few street lights, you had to be very careful walking back to the hotel after dark for fear of falling into a storm sewer.
Probably the worst former Soviet republic I visited along with Azerbaijan at the time.
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