Potemkin's Village: Social progress can be measured in many different ways

Saturday, January 28, 2012

Grigory Potyomkin: According to some historians, Grigory Potyomkin, Russian military leader, statesman, nobleman and favorite of Catherine the Great, and who led the Crimean military campaign, had hollow facades of villages constructed along the desolate banks of the Dnieper River in order to impress the Empress with the value of her new conquests

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