Übersetzung für "Potemkinsches dorf" in Englisch

Once again exposure to Western values has delivered another Potemkin Village;

Previously, it was Russia’s Western mission that was pure Potemkin village.

The report’s nicely polished exterior is, however, a legal ‘Potemkin facade’.

It's a? It's a Potemkin village.

Cold and stark, the university stands like a Potemkin village in the centre of Vienna.

All this adds up to a Russia that, if not quite a Potemkin state, is anything but great.

Was it purely the product of a collective delusion, an emotional Potemkin village of sorts, encouraged, if not conceived, by the authorities to restore some level of self-assurance among France’s depressed citizens?

Recently a group of photographers, perhaps inadvertently, revealed that the European Parliament is often almost completely empty, and the rest is just a Potemkin Village.

The great time and effort put into this diversionary tactic eventually succeeded when in the summer of 1944, a visiting commission of the Red Cross was presented with a Potemkinesque village. The inmates played them Verdi’s Requiem and the children’s opera Brundibár by Krása. The commission could even overhear sounds of the outlawed jazz coming from the 'Ghetto Swingers'.

The Terezín SS command then showed the Red Cross delegates a Potemkin village, which had very little in common with Terezín's cruel reality.

Baku resembles a Potemkin village .

This is very much a case of a 'Potemkin Village', because, in France alone, many poor people and people in insecure employment, not to mention the unemployed on training courses and many members of the active workforce who have been given early retirement, have been skilfully excluded from the statistics.

Historically, attempts at modernization in Russia, even when they look real, as with Stalin’s industrialization or Yeltsin’s market reforms, ultimately result in a Potemkin village-like state of affairs, because Russian society cannot change fast enough or with the patience necessary to see the changes through.

The Great Potemkin Village of 1999, the so-called Secure Digital Music Initiative, will have collapsed long before the first Internet President gets inaugurated, for simple technical reasons as obvious to those who know as the ones that dictated the triumph of free software [30].

And finally, a classical Potemkin village in Russia, where, on the occasion of a visit by Vladimir Putin to Suzdal on the Golden Ring and a triple summit in the city of Ufa, whole streets were masked with adhesive foil, wallpaper, and tarpaulins in an effort to provide the abandoned buildings with a feigned sense of activity.

And finally, a classical Potemkin village in Russia, where, on the occasion of a visit by Vladimir Putin to Suzdal on the Golden Ring and a triple summit in the city of Ufa, whole streets were masked with adhesive foil, wallpaper, and tarpaulins in an effort to provide the abandoned buildings with a feigned sense of activity.

With this move Gauck is finally adding an influential voice from within the EU to the protests against Russia, the liberal daily Gazeta Wyborcza writes: "A politician who has been stressing the need to respect human rights for years in Germany simply cannot afford to show himself in a Potemkin village like the Olympic venue Sochi....