The multimillion-dollar cinema has been showing only one film, “Turkmenistan the Heavenly Land,” since it opened in central Ashgabat about six months ago.
“Perhaps people got tired of the film,” said a cinema employee who didn’t want to give his name. “Most of our customers are not interested in the film, they just come to see the movie house itself.”
He said the theater needed at least five customers to show the movie, but most of the time the number of visitors didn’t reach five and the showing was canceled.
Looks like they don’t like the gimmick of 3D any more in former Soviet states than they do in the US.
What people recognize is that there’s a fear that the United States is in an unstoppable decline. They see the rise of China, the rise of India, the rise of the Soviet Union and our loss militarily going forward.Michele Bachmann • In a radio interview. Anyone fearing the rise of the Soviet Union can rest easy, as the country hasn’t existed since its collapse twenty years ago. Bachmann has previously claimed that America’s founding fathers “worked tirelessly” to end slavery, and that the Revolutionary War started in New Hampshire. Are we unfairly picking on a popular candidate for making a few innocent gaffes? Or is Bachmann’s tenuous grasp on history a legitimate concern for a candidate seeking the presidency? source (via • follow)
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