 Buddy, it's February 19th around 12 noon. There's Lviv's biggest university, Ivan Franko University There's the park and the monuments to Ivan Franko The Ukrainian Communists who for some stupid reason is a national hero He's a national hero because he wanted to create a Ukrainian Communism instead of independent from Moscow's communism So that's why the Soviets tolerated that Soviet style monument of him in fact promoted it and kind of hid his more nationalist ideas So a lot of violence in Ukraine yesterday I was showing the university because I wanted to point out that this is this is the the middle of the city Look at that beautiful sculpture Much of the city was built while under Austrian rule and while under Polish rule And I believe in 1939 it was only 25 percent Ukrainian though the countryside surrounding it was all Ukrainian but now now Lviv is the The Soviets chased out all the Poles and it has since become a The center of Ukrainian nationalism. So here I'm coming up on I think the prosecutor's office So while the real big violence was in Kiev last night here in Lviv Says Slava Ukraine glory to Ukraine smash windows While the real big violence was in Kiev, I think 25 people were killed here in Lviv There was they tried to blockade the military barracks One of the big military barracks is in near the V of perhaps for the same reason that American Military bases are in the south. It's to keep the revolutionaries down There's a big barricade Okay, so last night there was violence in the military barracks because Protesters wanted to stop reinforcements from going to Kiev and they succeeded and Then there was violence here The violence here they overran the prosecutor's office and The police station and they freed all the criminals I think they freed all kinds of criminals regardless of who they were and they burned all the files probably because They were like they were afraid that people were tracking the criminals So this is right in the center of of the city I'm not sure what that means Vina lots of war palaces I Call myself fluent in Ukrainian though sometimes that assertion is challenged There's the monument of St. George which is sort of a monument to the police you can see All the violet all the this happened last night But you can see there's still a big crowd here. It looks like there are protesters guarding the entrance Let's see if we can get a look More burning files Can't in the motion for children to provide today. We can't learn While they're killing people probably written by students like most revolutionary movements, this is Driven largely by the enthusiasm of youth So what do I know? 25 people killed in Kiev including some police Here in Lviv the military barracks First they were blocking the convoy then there was a stone and Molotov cocktail throwing contest between soldiers and And protesters here in Lviv and in the end the protesters overran the military barracks and burned them and then here they also overran the prison and the the The police center and the prosecutor's office earlier Earlier they had overrun the oblasts like the the state government center But let's take a look at this monument because this is pretty funny. Okay, so this is a monument to the police But it was sort of remade so St. George They should have put a bandana around his face But regardless St. George is waving a Ukrainian flag, which is a symbol of the protests and the snake is in fact the police That's pretty funny reason the Ukrainian flag is a symbol of the protests is because the government is a very Russo file and Partly ethnically Russian so may confuse some Western observers like why are the you know What's the point of protesters seeing the anthem or waving flags or why do they see like the riot police tearing down? Ukrainian flags and that their own symbol, but but no the the protesters are Our more nationalist than the government is more Russo file so That's kind of crazy See this is this is the city center More fires and barricades there pretty primitive barricades compared to the ones in Kiev I made a video of them a few weeks ago crazy crazy times But let's flip this around Okay, so what else do I know? Oh, yeah, one of the things that really bothered me about last night's protests like of course It's a big tragedy when people die, but for some reason I keep thinking of that armored vehicle It was a armored vehicle That went up to the barricades to try to like knock them over or puncture them And it got a whole bunch of Molotov cocktails thrown on to it And I don't know if it had been prepared with the fuel, but it just went up in flames And I hear reports that there were people there were police officers Not just the driver the other cops inside and they all burned to death I also saw a video of somebody of a police officer looking guy Retreating from that so maybe it's not true. Maybe they survived but Regardless that just made me Really angry not for any good reason In not for any good reason that I'm thinking about this more than the other protesters who were killed or protesters who were killed but But I can imagine the military decision being made I could imagine the stupid cowardly commander Just telling his soldiers. Yeah, just go do this, you know again and again in military history Infantry or armor needs infantry support armor needs infantry support to keep guys off your tanks this has happened so many times in military history and I can just imagine a stupid cowardly commander Sending those soldiers off to get killed All right anyway Let's keep going a little bit So right now there's no government in in the view of at all Wait, that's not true. The mayor's office is probably still running because Like the mayor is completely sympathetic with the protesters Well, that's a pretty lame barricade dirt and broken pots But there's little government. I think the police have all been scattered and have all run And I just want to walk a little further with you to the actual city center here What I like the very epicenter of the city which is independent Street Respects will be there So the violence in Kiev as I understand it It started because there was a session in the in like the Ukrainian Congress on a second Okay, so that there was a session in the Ukraine out of the protesters Marched like in an organized group out of the protest camps a few blocks further up Rusevskoha They went out of their barricaded encampment few blocks further to try to disrupt this session of Congress and That's where they started shooting protesters and Then all hell broke loose well not all hell I mean Could be much worse. I also did see that the other people said that they like the police Did that intentionally like they knew the protesters would leave the camp So as soon as they left they attacked them, you know near the Congress and at the same time They went and try to dismantle some of the barricades, and I think they succeeded I saw one video of Rusevskoha Street Where I was standing myself a couple weeks ago when I went to check it out But the the barricades were no longer there. So if you look at my previous video Like those back like where I was standing where I was taking that video among the barricades I think they were taken down amid the violence last night in Kiev All right, so check this out. This is the actual city center like a very very center of the city Where we were earlier was down that street. Oh, it's Hnyatukas Street. Oh Darn it, and I really should have done something We think Ludwig von Mises was born down this street So I think I just walk past his Ludwig von Mises was born on this street, and I was involved in searching archives to try to pinpoint What building he was born in And I actually walked right past his plaque Which was the fruit of all that research that we did It was actually my friends who concluded the research my my queries were all unsuccessful Anyway, I'm backtracking now. It's just So we knew that that Mises is a great-grandfather and great-uncle I owned a couple buildings like right on the city square on Staroevreska Street or Jewish Street and on the and on the central square, but But we found out the address where his father lived when he was born and it was right here and I walked right past it without showing it To my readers to my viewers So let's back up. There it is at 12 minutes video I wonder if I should edit out this walk this backtrack Okay. Anyway, there was there or the police station was you can see the smoke a little bit and over here Nya Tukas Street number 13 Who do you see smiling down at you? But the face of Ludwig von Mises Economist and liberal thinker was born in this building Well, what we know is this was where his father lived when he was born. So we assume this was his earliest childhood September 29th 1881 and boy, could Ukraine use some of his ideas. I Yeah, I actually angered some of my Ukrainian friends early on When these protests were about joining the EU they were about joining the EU initially, but that changed very quickly Now they're about deposing a hideously corrupt regime but early on I wrote an essay about Why I'm against Ukraine joining the EU and you should be too and it offended many people But I think influenced some others so since then I've been doing what little I could to introduce ideas about Local autonomy the right to self-defense and competing currencies. I was actually on television though not not on a very popular program But yeah, but it was good conversation and I was invited back for a second appearance and And I don't know that's what Ukraine needs. I don't know how to convince people, but I do know how to limit corruption All right So now we're walking this street a third time in Yatukas streets so what we're about to see what we're about to see is a Independence Street and here there's been sort of a permanent protest with tents and a stage and the sound system and And there's been a permanent protest for a few months. They're always just showing news sometimes there's music sometimes there's Speeches at least it's a little warmer winter kind of ended last weekend when I visited When I visited Maidan couple weeks ago Temperatures reached minus 17 degrees Celsius Be able to see that monuments kind of coming up like a wave on the left into the right. There's a poet that is national Nationalist national hero Taras Chanko. He's a poet. He wrote a lot about slavery or feudalism which ironically Ended ended in 1861 about two weeks after his death But he made his literary career writing about Ukrainian identity and feudalism Polish and Russian Polish had ended in 1848 What Russian feudalism ended with a declaration in 1861 so there are no cops in view At all Somehow everything is fine. I had coffee earlier. I'm gonna have coffee again And my phone is the batteries about to die So, but I think I covered what I want to cover There's a statue of Liberty looking figure on that building and she's sitting and The joke is that when Ukraine became independent she stood up But then after she took a look at Ukrainian politics she decided to sit back down However, I like what's going on. I hope if it if it goes in the right direction Maybe she'll stand up again Thanks for watching. Bye