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Named after Prince Potëmkin (who was said to have had villages of cardboard constructed to make his kingdom look more impressive for Catherine II's visit to the Ukraine and Crimea in 1787), a Potemkin façade is an ostentatious semblance intended to mask or divert attention from an embarrassing or shabby fact.

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