From the “You Can’t Make This Stuff Up” file, a Reuters story out of Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, summarizing the slow diminishment of the cult status of Turkmenbashi, ‘Father of All Turkmens,’ the nation’s dead former dictator: 

A rotating gold statue of Turkmenistan’s former leader is to be removed from the centre of the capital, state media said on Saturday, as his successor chips away at the late president’s personality cult.

Saparmurat Niyazov spent his 21 years in power building Turkmenistan into one of the world’s most isolated regimes while imposing his mark on the gas-rich Central Asian state.

He styled himself Turkmenbashi, or “Father of all the Turkmen”, and spent giant sums building sumptuous memorials to his own wisdom, including a 75-metre-tall (246 feet) tower in central Ashgabat whose summit is a statue of himself.

But President Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov has ordered the giant syringe-like structure that towers over low-rise Ashgabat to be removed to a southern suburb, state media said.

If you ever need source material for creating some insane dictator for a story or novel, you can find boatloads of material in the life of this nutcase.  The only problem: would your readers believe it?