Word: potemkinism
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...work converting downtown Pyongyang into the showplace of a new Red colony, with the usual shiny Stalin Boulevard and a marble International Hotel (185 rooms with bath), in preparation for a big Soviet celebration on Aug. 15. "The fronts of houses and buildings, at least," warned Pyongyang newspapers, Potemkin-style, "should be repaired and made presentable...
...were ready for them. Over vodka and shashlik, at a dinner party given for the visiting Americans, one Communist editor rose and proposed a toast to "Mr. Eisenhower and the American people." Just as quickly, Publisher Wiek was on his feet, toasting "the health of Premier Georgy Malenkov." With Potemkin-like efficiency, the group was taken on carefully conducted tours through the subway, to a collective farm, to the new Moscow University building, and to a candy factory...
...high Mongolian cheekbones. His short, refund body, with a slight lunch to the shoulders, suggests a great emotional and moral force. He has a gray, wrinkled complexion which tells the mixed story of his life laughter and story-telling around a campfire with the rebelling crew of the Battleship Potemkin combined with the anger and frustration of being a political prisoner of Nazi Germany...
When it is finally time for the movie itself, customers are shown to their seats by usherettes. (Occasionally the house managers show the zaniness of their U.S counterparts: when the supercolossal Battleship Potemkin was showing in Moscow the usherettes were dressed as sailors.) Moviegoers sit on unpadded wooden chairs. In the winter the little theaters have some heat, little or no fresh air, great many lice...
...write about the Eastern areas of Europe. . If you write you know nearly nothing about the area behind the "iron curtain," I must suppose that this you know is wrong, because the Russians show to American and foreign reporters only a very little bit and those you know as "Potemkin village," the truth no one will know. You may ask, what is the only truth? This is not easy to say, but I will...