Lviv akin to a budget-trip Vienna: Mix of architecture, culture in Ukraine city.(Travel)

From: The Washington Times | Date: August 7, 1999| Author: Murphy, Patrick W. | Copyright information

After one of the many wars in Eastern Europe, a border guard from the newly established Polish frontier post informed a peasant working in his field that he, the farmer, was a proud citizen of Poland. The peasant replied, "Thank God! I couldn't take those awful Russian winters much longer."

This supposed incident must have occurred near Lviv, a city and a population that have lived through many changes of both borders and political regimes.

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