Dr. Nick Hayes, professor of history who holds the university chair in critical thinking at Saint John's University in Collegeville, MN, while writing about Chechnya in MinnPost this past week in the aftermath of the Boston said that "Grozny is the Potemkin village of Putin’s Russia…"
Do you know what he was saying about Grozny?
Do you know why the Potemkin Village meme keeps showing up in discussions of Russian politics?
Can you use that phrase intelligently when answering a free response question on the exam next month?
Do you know what he was saying about Grozny?
Do you know why the Potemkin Village meme keeps showing up in discussions of Russian politics?
Can you use that phrase intelligently when answering a free response question on the exam next month?
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