Kazakhstan, where I served as a volunteer in the Peace Corps, responded to an insult by Russian Dictator -- um -- I mean President Putin who claimed Kazakhstan had no history.* They have produced an epic mini-series which the Guardian has described as its own Game of Thrones but what I'd prefer to call Game of Yurtas. It'll showcase how the nation was formed amidst the clashes of, among others, the Mongolian Empire and the Ukrainians. I'm hoping for an English subtitled version, but may have to suffice with a Russian subtitled version since my grasp of the Kazakh language is sadly limited to a handful of phrases. While this will undoubtedly be seen as a waste of money by some, the production put thousands of people to work in a nation where Putin has a stranglehold on businesses there and crippled the economy.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/27/kazakhstan-game-of-thrones-putin-and-borat * When I served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in 2002, I trained in a village adjacent to these beautiful green foothills. The Soviet Union spent decades crushing all individuality of its "republics," so it was with some degree of shock that the locals discovered those foothills were really ancient burial sites, akin to pyramids. Their history was denied them by the soviet regime for generations, and while anyone who knows Kazakhstan's corrupt president knows his version of history might not be 100% accurate, I applaud their collective efforts over the past year to reaffirm its own sense of culture. The Kazakh people are some of the best people you could ever hope to meet -- they are the sort of Muslims the world needs more of, and their women... oh, their women. -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
