There are fake cities around the world?

Let me tell you about Potemkim Villages

Did you know that there are all kinds of fake towns that exist across the world? It's called a Potemkin Village.

They're fake cities designed to deceive people into believing that the city is better than it really is, and they're all over the world.

These (below) are in Russia and Prague.

Abandoned buildings get new paint and suddenly don't look abandoned to people passing through on the train.

For the passengers, these cities appear to be better than they really are.

There's also a Potemkin Village in North Korea.

It directly faces South Korea. It's an entirely fake town with clean streets, apartment complexes, and even working electricity. However, telescopic lenses have revealed that the towns buildings are basically nothing more than empty concrete shells. When you zoom in, you can see that these buildings even lack glass windows, interior rooms, and even flooring.

The entire neighborhood was built just to lure people in from South Korea into the dictatorship-ruled North Korea. South Koreans themselves have nicknamed the town “Propaganda Village”.

Then I learned about this one in Nevada (below).

It’s a fake neighborhood that existed in the 50s, called Doom Town.

To see what would happen to a real town if an atomic bomb were dropped on it, scientists created the fake town of Doom to find out.

They built real houses, placed real furniture, stocked them with actual food, and then filled the town with entire families of mannequins.

Then they proceeded to detonate multiple atomic bombs, mostly in order to see what exactly would happen to the mannequins.

Spoiler alert: none of the mannequins survived.

-Felecia For The Win

Felecia is a software engineer by trade but a philosopher at heart who has amassed a following of over 500K on TikTok by talking about society. Felecia chats about social constructs, social experiments, social programming, and social psychology.