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Potemkin Village

A construction built solely to deceive others into believing that a situation is better than it really is.

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Origin

Though likely an exaggerated origin story, refers to 18th-century Russian military general Grigory Potemkin who set up "mobile villages" on the banks of the Dnieper River for review by Empress Catherine II.

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