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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.
Kijŏng-dong, Kijŏngdong, Kijŏng tong or Kaepoong is reportedly a Potemkin village in P'yŏnghwa-ri (Korean: 평화리; Hancha: 平和里), [1] Panmun-guyok, [a] Kaesong Special City, North Korea. It is situated in the North's half of the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). [2]
The phrase Potemkin village entered common usage in Russia and globally, despite its fictional origin. [135] The Grigory Potemkin Republican Cadet Corps is a specialized institution in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Transnistria that is named after the Russian prince. [136] The corps of drums of the Potemkin Republican Cadet Corps
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.
However, observation from South Korea suggests that the town is an uninhabited Potemkin village built at great expense in the 1950s in a propaganda effort to encourage defections from South Korea and to house the DPRK soldiers manning the extensive network of artillery positions, fortifications and underground marshalling bunkers that abut the ...
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 ...
A Potemkin village–styled scene has been built around the ruins of the theatre. [32] In February 2023, Russian journalist Maria Ponomarenko was sentenced to six years in prison under Russia's war censorship laws for publishing information about the Mariupol theatre airstrike. [33]
[48] On 23 June 1944, the visitors were led on a tour through the "Potemkin village"; [49] they did not notice anything amiss and the ICRC representative, Maurice Rossel, reported that no one was deported from Theresienstadt. [45] [50] Rabbi Leo Baeck, a spiritual leader at Theresienstadt, stated that "The effect on our morale was devastating ...