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Potemkin1

Pronunciation: /pəˈtɛmkɪn/
Definition of Potemkin
  • a battleship whose crew mutinied in the Russian Revolution of 1905 when in the Black Sea, bombarding Odessa before seeking asylum in Romania. The incident persuaded the tsar to agree to a measure of reform.

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