Po|tem|kin Village

Po|tem|kin Village
Po|tem|kin Village «poh TEHM kihn»,
a false facade intended to cover up a bad situation or activity: »

The Party's myth of a bright future might seem to Russian poets like the biggest Potemkin Village of them all (New Yorker).

╂[< Prince Grigori Potemkin, 1739-1791, a Russian statesman and governor of the Crimea, who is said to have fooled Catherine the Great during her tour of the Crimea in 1787 by building sham villages to hide the area's actual poverty]

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