📚 noun • entry_id 39975
Potemkin village
Meanings (ES + gloss)
pueblo Potemkin
Any false construct devised to disguise a shortcoming or improve appearances.
Such concentration not only simplifies the task of keeping tabs on foreigners' movements, but it also enables the Government to influence the outside world's picture of Russia by a…
When a government substitutes propaganda for governing, the Potemkin village is all. Since we don't get honest information from this White House, we must instead, as the Soviets on…
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