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Take it easy regarding Gunter Grass, the easy path is still the common choice

August 18th, 2006

Gunter Grass confessed of being member of the Waffen SS after 60 years and accused of choosing the easier path when he was young. Some of his critics say that he needs to clearly and completely analyze his mistake in helping to fight a criminal war for a crazy leader. In their opinion this will be the effective amendment he can make now for covering up his Waffen SS past. These talks make me to think about Turkmenistan and its president for life. State owned Turkmen media describes him as the High Father of the Turkmens and there is no sign of freedom of expression. If you want to enjoy your rights or write to International organizations about the widespread abuses in Turkmenistan, you will be branded as a madman and put in a psychiatric hospital as it happened to Durdymyrat Hojamuhammad, Gurbandurdy Durdygulyyev or Kakabay Tejenov. But, despite being admitted as the most unpredictable guy in the post-soviet area for his unexplainable actions, the Turkmen dictator has enough admirers in the West. In Turkmenistan the president for life is the only subject of the state-propaganda, writers and journalists work for him and thanks to them he authored a book titled Rukhnama, The Book of soul and it has been translated into dozens of languages such as Russian, Turkish, English, Chinese, even Japanese… Because Turkmenistan is a gas-rich country and its leader can give you good contract and you may use these opportunities to make good money while the Turkmens are forced to go through all hell on earth in order to feed their children. It is easy to condemn the writer who finally confessed his not so easy past, but there are hundreds of business people in Western democratic countries who are ready to take part in the crime against the Turkmen nation for financial benefits. It is a good thing that Gunter Grass brought this up and talked about it after all these years but while we are talking about the moral of humanity it would be much better if we could identify who is on the wrong today rather than was during WWII. Or do only writers have to follow morals? In fact, the admirers of the Turkmen dictator are more than one could imagine in Germany. Even his personal physician is a German professor not forgetting to mention that reportedly Turkmen gas money is being kept in the president’s personal account on Deutsche Bank. And last but not least, Mercedes was said to be the sponsor of the translation of his book to German in order to gain a government contract for Benz vehicles.

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