The ‘always non-authoritative’ Wikipedia is good enough for now. In politics and economics, a Potemkin village (Russian: потёмкинские деревни, romanized: potyómkinskiye derévni) is a construction (literal or figurative) whose purpose is to provide an external façade to a situation, to make people believe that the situation is better than it is. The term comes from stories … Continue reading Peace Train Ukraine: Potemkin Villages All! (Update)