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Lviv, City on the Edge

Most evidence of Soviet rule has been erased, though large murals depicting workers on buildings outside the Old Town preserve some of Socialist realism’s cultural notes.

In Lviv, employees move artwork at the Andrey Sheptytsky National Museum March 4, 2022 as part of safety preparations in the event of an attack. AP/Bernat Armangue
CALEB LARSON
CALEB LARSON

LVIV, Ukraine — While Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has thrown the country into an existential struggle for survival, parts of Lviv, Ukraine’s largest western city, move at much the same meandering pace they did before the war arrived.

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CALEB LARSON
CALEB LARSON

Mr. Larson is a multimedia journalist based at Berlin. He covers the intersection of conflict and politics, focusing on American foreign policy, European security, and German society.

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