Author: Michael J. Polignano
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August 2, 2010 Michael J. Polignano
Potemkin Equality
991 words
French translation here
In 1787 the Russian count Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin organized a tour for Catherine the Great of recently annexed territories in the Crimea. Everywhere Catherine went, she saw villages filled with happy, prosperous peasants and concluded that all was well. Potemkin’s enemies, however, accused him of fooling the Empress by constructing fake villages, (more…)