Mental Models

Mental Models

Potemkin Village

May 18, 2021
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For Catherine II’s trip to Crimea in 1787, Russian Prince Grigorij Potemkin wanted to show her that he had achieved prosperity in the newly conquered village.

So he constructed fake settlements to conceal the dilapidated conditions of the town.

To hide the decay of reality, he created a facade to impress the Empress.

This phenomenon of creating a facade to…

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