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DID YOU KNOW? The story goes - its probably an exaggeration of some window-dressing to impress foreign ambassadors - that when Catherine the Great of Russia took a river tour of the recently annexed Crimea in 1787, her lover and maybe secret husband Potemkin (its pronounced Potyomkin) erected fake villages on the river banks each day to make the place look better than it was. Hence the expression : a Potemkin village.
Posted on: Tue, 27 May 2014 21:11:52 +0000

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