8. Potyomkin Villages
Grigory Potyomkin was a famous Russian nobleman from the 18th century. The story goes that during one of the visits of Catherine the Great, he made fake villages with people faking prosperity that didn’t exist. Due to the lack of concrete information the story has become more of a myth but many believe that this was one of the first cruel regimes of their time.
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