DONT fall for it

2020-06-13T16:44:46+00:00

façade of life

pkarlmann · 2020-06-13T18:19:10+00:00

In politics and economics, a Potemkin village is any construction (literal or figurative) whose sole purpose is to provide an external façade to a country which is faring poorly, making people believe that the country is faring better. The term comes from stories of a fake portable village built solely to impress Empress Catherine II by her former lover Grigory Potemkin, during her journey to Crimea in 1787. While modern historians claim accounts of this portable village are exaggerated, the original story was that Potemkin erected phony portable settlements along the banks of the Dnieper River in order to impress the Russian Empress; the structures would be disassembled after she passed, and re-assembled farther along her route to be viewed again as if another example. The term is a translation of the Russian: потёмкинские деревни (IPA: /pɐˈtʲɵmkʲɪnskʲɪɪ dʲɪˈrʲɛvnʲɪ/; romanization: potyómkinskiye derévni).

deadBeefCafe2014 · 2020-06-13T17:08:50+00:00

I was about to ask which movie set is this?

Title	DONT fall for it
Author	REDDEAT1
Upvotes	35
Comments	7
Date	June 13, 2020 4:41 PM UTC (6 years ago)
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