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"Potemkin village" is a phrase that has been used by American judges, especially members of a multiple-judge panel who dissent from the majority's opinion on a particular matter, to refer to an inaccurate or tortured interpretation and/or application of a particular legal doctrine to the specific facts at issue.
The village features a number of brightly painted, poured-concrete multi-story buildings and apartments, many apparently wired for electricity. The town was oriented so that the bright blue roofs and multi-colored sides of the buildings next to the massive DPRK flag would be the most distinguishing features when viewed from across the border.
The trip was arranged by Grigory Potemkin, a favorite and former lover of Catherine II. The trip happened just prior to the Russo-Turkish War (1787–1792). [1] The trip is the origin of the expression "Potemkin village", referring to the legend [2] of fake villages hastily erected by Potemkin along Catherine's route in order to impress her.
Another poster of Battleship Potemkin. The posters for the movie Battleship Potemkin created by Aleksandr Rodchenko in 1925 became prominent examples of Soviet constructivist art. [49] One version shows a sniper sight on two scenes of Eisenstein's movie, representing two guns of the Battleship. [50] Another version was created in 1926. [51]
A long-surviving legend about the Potemkin villages was false, even though it became eponymous. It states that Potemkin built fake settlements with hollow facades to fool Empress Catherine II during her visit to Crimea and New Russia, the territories Russia conquered under her reign. Modern historians, however, consider this scenario at best an ...
Battleship Potemkin uprising, a mutiny in 1905 The Battleship Potemkin, a film by Sergei Eisenstein dealing with the mutiny; Potemkin village, a term for fake settlements; Potemkin Island, an island in southern Ukraine named after Grigory Potemkin "Potemkine", a song by Jean Ferrat glorifying the uprising; All pages with titles containing Potemkin
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associated with the "Potemkin village" - should that be plural, ie associated with "Potemkin villages"? Not done; based on a largely fictional tale about a practice of constructing building façades to mimic proper villages better, based on the largely fictional tale about the practice of constructing building façades to mimic real villages (I