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Turkmenistan does not have a dictatorship. What word would you use to describe a nation where the government provides the people with free electricity, free water, free food, free petrol and protects the people from the corruption and decadence that defines much of the modern world, if not "democracy"? The people come first, and those that seek to destroy the system that protects them are not people who deserve the luxury of life among the blessed people. While I admit that during the Soviet Union, there were many violations of the basic foundations that were created for all men, women and children, those were not a result of a dictatorship. Stalin and Lenin were magnificent leaders and the only leaders superior to them were Niyazov, Muhammad, Jesus and Moses. Not only did they understand the importance of keeping the people dependent on the state to provide them the freedom that they would not otherwise be able to harness, they understood the importance of regulating the knowledge too much for the masses to grasp; Their only faults were that they failed to balance the system that they crafted in the image of God and the state of His kingdom, and that they opposed religion even as a tool to keep the people calm. Other than these two flaws, Stalin and Lenin were close to being Men of God. Niyazov, however, was flawless. I do not see how anybody could call him a dictator except for brainwashed slaves to the Great Satan, whose testicles burrow into their abdomens at the sight of greatness or at the utterance of the words "communism" or "faith". It may be true that Berdimuhamedow is not as successful a leader as his precedessor, but he is surely going to rise to new heights once he gains firsthand experience of the terrors of capitalism, mandatory godlessness and inequal distribution of goods. Freedom is not defined by the level of education or happiness, but rather by the equality of the distribution of goods. A government that gives the people what they need rather than what they want and takes from them what they do not need is a government that will prosper, and a people that takes from the government and from each other only what they need rather than one that lets greed conquer their minds is a people that will prosper to greater heights than the government that gives them the things that they need and takes from them the things that they do not need.