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Potemkin

SOURCE: New York Times
10/26/2022

Putin Loyalists Steal Remains of Potemkin from Kherson

The theft reflects contemporary Russian nationalists' view of Potemkin as the intellectual progenitor of a Greater Russia.

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Potemkin

Putin Loyalists Steal Remains of Potemkin from Kherson