Potemkin

What is Potemkin?

1.

Fake, not real, a sham.

Comes from a legend of Governor Potemkin of Crimea who supposedly created sham villages (Potemkin Villages) to impress his queen from a distance, but this story has been overal refuted by historians.

"This is just a Potemkin Senate, the voting was fraudulent!"

See fake, sham, false, puppet government, front, fronting
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