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Kazakh Gold Medalist Is Played Borat Anthem

Posted by samzenpus on from the Kazakhstan-you-very-nice-place dept.

Wo-wo-wee-wah! It looks like the Kuwaiti officials at an international shooting event never got the memo that the film Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan wasn't an actual documentary. Gold medalist Maria Dmitrienko stood stoically while the offensive national anthem from the film was played during the awards ceremony. From the article: "Coach Anvar Yunusmetov told Kazakh news agency Tengrinews that the tournament's organizers had also got the Serbian national anthem wrong." Nice!

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  1. Banned in Kuwait by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    Posting anonymously because I'm quoting other posts elsewhere that already covered this story...

    Someone brought up that Borat was banned in Kuwait, and that might have been why they did not recognize the fake anthem.

  2. Kazakh wine by Lunix+Nutcase · · Score: 2, Insightful

    At least they didn't give them fermented horse piss as drinks.

  3. Re:Double irony award? by an+unsound+mind · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And playing the wrong anthem is an exceedingly impolite thing to do.

  4. I am underwhelmed by the original video by mapkinase · · Score: 1, Insightful

    The movie was so mediocre that it has been forgotten by most people, that explains no reaction from the part of the woman.

    Besides, she is ethnically Russian and probably has no particular feeling for both fake or real anthem, or any other ridiculous cargo cult attributes of Kazakhstan.

    By the way, Kazakhs are Muslims and music is prohibited in Islam.

    I can't wait the moment when Mujahedeen will kick Nazarbaev's ass to London - the cloaka of Soviet and post-Soviet has beens.

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