Structure built solely to deceive others into thinking that a situation is better than it really is
In politics and economics, a Potemkin village (Russian: потёмкинские деревни, romanized: potyomkinskiye derevni) is a construction (literal or figurative) whose purpose is to provide an external façade to a situation, to make people believe that the situation is better than it is. The term comes from stories of a fake portable village built by Grigory Potemkin, a field marshal and former lover of Empress Catherine II, solely to impress the Empress during her journey to Crimea in 1787.[1] Modern historians agree that 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 and foreign guests. The structures would be disassembled after she passed, and re-assembled farther along her route to be seen again.
In politics and economics, a Potemkinvillage (Russian: потёмкинские деревни, romanized: potyomkinskiye derevni) is a construction (literal or figurative)...
Prince Grigory Aleksandrovich Potemkin-Tauricheski (October 11 [O.S. September 30] 1739 – October 16 [O.S. October 5] 1791) was a Russian military leader...
renovations to hide and imitate the real architecture underneath it. A Potemkinvillage is a simulation: a facade meant to fool the viewer into thinking that...
the origin of the expression "Potemkinvillage", referring to the legend of fake villages hastily erected by Potemkin along Catherine's route in order...
claim of the use of simulated reality outside of virtual worlds is the Potemkinvillage, which has become a term to describe a faked appearance of a real situation...
last on Fat Wreck Chords. The title of the album is an allusion to Potemkinvillage, a political term referring to a false construct intended to hide an...
long-surviving legend about the Potemkinvillages was false, even though it became eponymous. It states that Potemkin built fake settlements with hollow...
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awe." Haitian example: This example (occasionally referred to as the Potemkinvillage example) refers to a martial parade staged in Haiti on behalf of the...
relations stunt". Gideon Remez later referred to the settlement as a Potemkinvillage. However, the Ministry of Construction entered the preliminary planning...
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