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HalfMooner
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 Posted - 09/24/2009 : 14:25:35
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What on Earth? #72: Showcase Village of the Arts
This village was successfully presented to a major international NGO as a center of high culture, fine arts, and good living. Choruses, symphony orchestras, a children's opera, jazz bands, graphic artists, etc., were performed in the village. A documentary film was made, showcasing the village.
1. What was horribly wrong with the above impression (ie, what was really going on)?
2. What's the name of the place?
3. Where is this place?
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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Edited by - HalfMooner on 09/24/2009 14:39:07
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bngbuck
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Posted - 09/24/2009 : 15:17:28 [Permalink]
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It very much looks like what's wrong is that there are no people in the "village".
It must be a Potemkin village built by a rogue nation to impress visitors.
Nazi Germany perhaps? Theresienstadt, in Czechoslovakia? |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 09/24/2009 : 16:21:57 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by bngbuck
It very much looks like what's wrong is that there are no people in the "village".
It must be a Potemkin village built by a rogue nation to impress visitors.
Nazi Germany perhaps? Theresienstadt, in Czechoslovakia?
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Correct for 2 points, bngbuck. You can get that last one, can't you?
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“Biology is just physics that has begun to smell bad.” —HalfMooner
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| Edited by - HalfMooner on 09/24/2009 18:27:46 |
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bngbuck
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Posted - 09/24/2009 : 17:40:07 [Permalink]
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Well, Kijong Dong, North Korea,is the only other fairly contemporary example of the Potemkin ruse that I find, although there are numerous historical examples. Mooner uses the present tense as in: Where is this place?
Unfortunately, my googleview of Kijong Dong is too opaque to get the detail of your satellite picture, so I can't be sure.
Shin Sang-OK, a Korean film director, did make a documentary of North Korea including the sham "village" of Kijong Dong.
The reference to a major international NGO does sound like the Red Cross, the IHRO or possibly the IAEA, but I find nothing having to do with nuclear activity. If it ain't North Korea, I'll have to look at some of the lying nations of the Middle East! |
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Dave W.
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Posted - 09/24/2009 : 18:16:44 [Permalink]
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| bng, you gave him the name and the location, already. The unanswered question is "What was horribly wrong with the above impression (ie, what was really going on)?" The answer is found by Googling the name of the town and learning that it was a concentration camp. |
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HalfMooner
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Posted - 09/24/2009 : 18:29:26 [Permalink]
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Originally posted by Dave W.
bng, you gave him the name and the location, already. The unanswered question is "What was horribly wrong with the above impression (ie, what was really going on)?" The answer is found by Googling the name of the town and learning that it was a concentration camp.
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Well, duh. 
Correct! The one last point goes to Dave W.!
BTW, bngbuck, the place is still there in the present tense. Like other Nazi concentration camps, it's kept maintained as a memorial.
I suspect that Theresienstadt isn't best described as simply (or even primarily) a Potemkin Village, since it also served the Nazis as a transshipment camp for Auschwitz, a slave labor camp, and a death camp in its own right.
The "NGO" I mentioned was the International Red Cross, which was utterly fooled by the Nazi ruse.
The standings:- Hal, 22 points
- steinhenge, 8 points
- bngbuck, 7 points
- Hawks, 5.5 points
- lorddix, 4 points
- Randy, 3 points
- sailinsoul, 3 points
- Dave W., 2 points
- Simon, 2 points
(Ties are listed in alphabetical order.)
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| Edited by - HalfMooner on 09/24/2009 19:15:58 |
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bngbuck
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Posted - 09/24/2009 : 22:47:58 [Permalink]
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Dave and Mooner.....
Yeah, I kinda thought it was a concentration camp because that was how I found it. But Mooner asked, as Number 3, (the last one, out of 1,2,and 3)So, stupid me, having thought that I had already answered where it was and was wrong, started looking for another Potemkin village and found one in North Korea.
Mooner originally asked in #1 something like:| 1. What is wrong with the picture below (ie, what was really going on)? |
and then edited it to | 1. What was horribly wrong with the above impression (ie, what was really going on)? |
I foolishly was still thinking of the original question when I answered to #1 "It very much looks like what's wrong is that there are no people in the "village".
In retrospect, my "no people in the village" answer does not answer the question as amended, but I thought at the time that it partly answered the original question, even though it did not respond to the question "what was really going on?"
I should have re-read the amended question, particularly with reference to the word "horribly", which is an obvious reference to the nature of the Thereseinstadt concentration camp.
Mooner did not specify in his response to me which of the three questions I had answered correctly and I missed his intent (stupidly) when I started looking for another "village". I knew that the place had been a Nazi concentration camp and that the Red Cross was probably the agency involved, but foolishly did not express this knowledge. In retrospect, it is obvious!
My bad, he that cruises, loses! Chalk it up to terminal senility.
Consistent with that, I would give one half of the contents of my scrotal container for the ESP that the alien, Hal possesses!
I am insanely jealous of his thaumaturgical ability to know the unknowable. Almost instantly! |
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HalfMooner
Dingaling
Philippines
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Posted - 09/25/2009 : 02:48:20 [Permalink]
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I do think I should always try to make it clear which answers a person gets right, when not all are answered. I've now done that with the next exercise.
Sorry about the amended question throwing you off, bngbuck. Oftentimes I catch a problem after I've already posted. Please, everyone, check to make sure you're not responding to Version 1.0 or 1.1 in case there's a v 2.2.
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WoE # 72: Showcase Village of the Arts
