“….Potemkin set up a series of “mobile” fake communities, complete with Russian villagers. #Potemkinvillages.” They extended all along the route of the Empress’s journey down the Dnipro River, the goal being to make it appear as though the new colonial settlements were thriving and therefore worthy of fightingthe relevance of the story to our current times is not so much about the accuracy of the particulars as about the underlying dynamics.
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