The Wrong National Anthem
In 2012, Kazakhstan’s Mariya Dmitrienko competed in the Arab Shooting Championship in Kuwait. She won the gold medal in the 75 target event. As she stepped up to the winner’s podium, the Kazakh national anthem started to play — or so she thought. The music blared in, but instead of the actual, harmonious Kazakh anthem, a familiar voice to us all started crooning. This voice, of course, belongs to Borat. Somehow, instead of playing the Kazakh anthem that the country had sent in, the organizers had mistakenly downloaded the parody anthem from hit movie “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.” Inexplicably, everyone seemed to go along with it and all the viewers were treated to the full song. Kazakhstan later filed a series of complaints, and an alternate ceremony was held a few days later with the real anthem.
For those who have forgotten, here are the incredible lyrics to Borat’s parody anthem:
Kazakhstan greatest country in the world.
All other countries are run by little girls.
Kazakhstan number one exporter of potassium.
Other countries have inferior potassium.
Kazakhstan home of Tinshein swimming pool.
It’s length thirty meter and width six meter.
Filtration system a marvel to behold.
It remove 80 percent of human solid waste.
Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan you very nice place.
From Plains of Tarashek to Norther fence of Jewtown.
Kazakhstan friend of all except Uzbekistan.
They very nosey people with bone in their brain.
Kazakhstan industry best in the world.
We incented toffee and trouser belt.
Kazakhstan’s prostitutes cleanest in the region.
Except of course Turkmenistan’s
Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan you very nice place.
From Plains of Tarashek to Norther fence of Jewtown.
Come grasp the might phenis of our leader.
From junction with the testes to tip of its face!
Bonus Borat fun fact: The FBI assigned a team to track Sacha Baron Cohen while he was filming Borat due to numerous reports of a “Middle Eastern man traveling the Midwest in an ice cream truck.”
