Moscow like St Petersburg is very intentionally a Potemkin Village that absorbs

Moscow like St Petersburg is very intentionally a Potemkin Village that absorbs all the resources extracted from the rest of the country, which, by every measure lives amid decaying poverty. With everyone capable of escaping westward to moscow doing so at the first opportunity.

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–“In politics and economics, a Potemkin village is a construction whose purpose is to provide an external façade to a situation, to make people believe that the situation is better than it is.”–

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