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Keiva quotes: ETYMOLOGY: After Grigori Aleksandrovich Potemkin, who had elaborate fake villages constructed for Catherine the Great's tours of the Ukraine and the Crimea....
Are all stage sets Potemkin villages? I hear a pantomime horse's hooves trotting in the wings of a Potemkin village...
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