 So, that coffee shop opened about a week ago, Wiedensky Diem Vienna House. I just had coffee there with my great friend, the notorious Andrei Drozda. And he's going to show me the SBU building. No, Public Prosecutors Office. Public Prosecutors Office. Oh, there's a fence, so we should cross the street on our way. Okay. Maybe let us go with them. Today is what? The 19th? 19th. 19th, it's about 2 p.m. There is Danilo Holitsky, he was the king that founded the Wiev in I believe the 14th century and named it after his son Lev, 13th century. He was part of the Rurik dynasty from Kiev, as I understand it, 100 years after the city's founding, there was a secession crisis and it became a Polish city and remained so for 400 years? I think that the Wiev was already one of the major cities of the Galicia and Bolivia kingdom, so it was a separate state from Kiev. A separate state, but part of the dynasty, the founders here were related to the rulers of Kiev. And when the last man from the dynasty died with no children, so the Polish kings just invaded into Galicia. Invaded or was it a peaceful transition? No, at first it was peaceful. There were some Hungarian kings who had the right to rule here, but Kazimer Veliky, Kazimer is a great Polish king, in 1340 he did the military invasion here and he just robbed the city, burned the castle down, and then he claimed himself the king of this territory, so it was a military force. That's one of the reasons I love Andreas because he knows everything about Ukrainian history and I'm eager to learn. So there's Hotel George, there's the monuments to the Polish anti-communist poet, or maybe I shouldn't classify him that way. He was a poet and he was somewhat anti-communist, Mitzkevich. Mitzkevich, I wouldn't say he was anti-communist because he lived in the 19th century, he's the prototype, like Karrasov-Chanuk in Ukraine, Mitzkevich is the central tingam. Let me just, so earlier we were down there, that was the very center, Hotel George, here's Gloria Jean's coffee shop and one of the managers there, I spoke to her today, she went away from Gloria, or it used to be Gloria Jean's part of the franchise, then it became Gloria Cafe and it was one of the managers from here who went and now she works at Vienna House Cafe which opened last week. So here we're going on Prospekt-Shivchenko Street, this is the road. The name of the street was Akademichno Street, Academic Street, Academic Prospekt and it was the main street, the main avenue for pedestrians to walk for a long time, it was not allowed for cars and different transport, different vehicles to move here, just walking. I keep accidentally pressing buttons on my phone, I hope I didn't disturb the video. Okay I think it's good, alright, alright I gotta decide which way I want to hold this thing. There's McDonald's and here is the beginning of Prospekt-Shivchenko Street and I think after I finish this video I'm gonna go there and have lunch, Puzatahata, it's a funny name Puzatahata means swollen belly, like swollen from eating, so it's swollen belly house. Let's flip this around without pressing any buttons on my phone. So Andri was telling me that a lot of, like there are no police in the view now, obviously you can see the, we're very civilized people, everything is completely normal. But Andri was telling me that last night, okay well I accidentally turned off my camera so I'm gonna play this again, here we are at the prosecutor's office, it's on Prospekt-Shivchenko-Shivchenko Street, one of the, it's right in the, this is the center of the city, beautiful street, later I'm gonna have lunch over there in Puzatahata, swollen belly house restaurant. And here is the prosecutor's office, it was also raided last night and in front of the prosecutor's office it's all the, all the files and computers and furniture have been built, burnt, they probably wanted to destroy any records because they're very likely keeping records on the protesters. And just to give you a sense of the tension that exists in Ukraine, this monument right here it's been here since 2000, so this monument has been here for 14 years. That picture is of a Ukrainian composer Ihor, forgot his name, Ihor Bilozira. So Ukrainian composer and apparently in 2000, he was at a restaurant on this street and he was with his wife and he asked the restaurant to switch the music, it was Russian music and he said hey why don't you switch to Ukrainian music and there was sort of a shouting match with him and two Russian speaking guys who were policemen, out of uniform policemen and he ended up leaving the restaurant and they followed him and it was a fight and he ended up getting killed right on this spot. So this monument has been here for 14 years now and we are at the prosecutor's office still smoldering records, computers, furniture, windows smashed. Let me see if I, oh there he is, I just, I just recorded that part again. Had you recorded our way here? I had five minutes, I had five minutes of footage before I accidentally hit the pause button so I got part of it, I think I messed up right by... So you already told the story of Ihor Bilozira? Yeah, I think I paused it right by McDonald's. Are you a journalist? No, I'm not officially, I do blog. So Roman Ihor Zlaty? Yeah, I'm Ukrainian, I'm Ukrainian. So what do you think? About the situation which happened to Ukraine. I think it's very bad for us because the Ukrainian people want to be free or we want to be necessary. We are necessary and our president is a variant. Are you skeptical about the European Union? No, no, no, no, I and all Ukrainian want to be in Europe or we are in Europe but the situation which happened is not good for us. In my opinion Russia want the same and want that we must be together. I'm actually a little bit skeptical of the, I'm very skeptical of the EU. Yeah, I'd rather see Ukrainians own guns and just have a lot of... But that's a long discussion and my battery will not survive. Yeah, but now it's in the war in Ukraine. Well, let's hope it doesn't escalate too far, it was nice meeting you. Nice meeting you too. So apparently there are no police in the city but no police, I'm talking to my viewers but everything continues to function, businesses. People are able to provide security and provide another evidence that we don't need police in our society. You need to own guns. Oh look, there's a phone hanging from the window. It was too late. It's like a cartoon, you just need someone hanging from the phone. Hello, hello. Beautiful buildings. Hey mom, if you're watching there's a Veronica, that yellow awning. That's where we had coffee and pastries numerous times. Favorite place, I believe. Well, great. Do you feel like joining me for some Puzatakata? Yeah, but let's go first to Matovich, not far from here, near Hrushevsky Monument. Okay. We'll be in another interesting place and then we'll go back to Puzatak. Alright, so we're going to walk a little bit further to the police station. Let me flip my camera around and there's Veronica, one of my favorite coffee shops. Delicious pastries. The owner sends his workers to Austria to learn how to cook those pastries. I wonder what would your friends from Switzerland models see when they just see all this stuff that's happening here. Near the restaurant where they had a dinner. Yeah, yeah, unfortunately it doesn't keep a Facebook presence. We store a traditional Old Café Scottish restaurant. Right there, they'll restore it. Yeah, where the famous Scottish school in Lviv was found. Really? I didn't know there was a Scottish school of mathematicians. Yeah, you just should check out... Damn, so many new cafes. One of the best mathematicians in the world were gathering here at the 20s and 30s and they were solving very difficult mathematicians problems. In the 20s and 30s, okay. So in the 20s there was a Ukrainian-Polish war for control of Eastern Galatia. And the Polish state emerged and this became a purely Polish city until 1939 when the Soviets invaded and then the Soviets chased out all the Poles and then after the Soviet Union and then in 1991 it became Ukrainian. And the Nazis just chased all the Jews and exterminated all the Jews. Yeah, there was also up to a 25% Jewish population. So where are we going? We talk about Bushevsky, we're going to pass his monument. Okay, sure. Well, on this place there was the monument to a Polish dramatur... Alexander Predra. They took that monument with them and it's now in Wroclaw, I guess, or Gdansk or other Polish cities. And was there like a monument of Lenin here afterwards? No, here was no any Soviet monument, never. Okay, so when did this one was put up? Was it in 1991 or earlier? I guess in the late 90s. Late 90s. And who was Makhalo Hrushevsky? Makhalo Hrushevsky was a famous historian. Historian, yep. And he was the first president of Ukraine, of the Ukrainian Narodno-Uanatov. In 1918? 1980. 1918, yes. It was a short-lived Western Ukrainian state. But they lost the war with the Poles by all accounts. Very professional war on both sides. And then it was a bad time for Ukraine, because most of Ukraine was at war with the Bolsheviks, which was kind of a civil war. It was a monarchic army, a democratic army, and a communist army, and the Bolsheviks won. And here in the west there was a war between Ukrainians and Poles. And Ukrainians lost everywhere, unless you count the Ukrainians who were on the side of the Bolsheviks. You can see the big crowd there. So we are moving to the police department, which was captured, which was, you know, occupied by a crowd, by a crowd. That hurt this night. A smashed car there. Okay, let's see smashed cars. Smashed cars are fun to look at. A pile of documents smoldering. That does not look like a police car to me. It's not a policeman, because they always leave their own cars here. Windows up on this building. I'm not sure what this building is. Oh, I thought it was a... Oh, look, there are people recovering documents. They want to finish burning them. Smoldering. Right below our feet. Merchata vinapo. Merchata vinapo. So it's the people's houses, and the war to palaces. Oh, I don't... They want us to reach... I tend to be pro-rich people, but... Yeah, I tend to, but... Yeah, it's the... The rich people are oligarchs. They have a precise rhetoric of revolution. Dangerous. So that's what a tire looks like when you smash a smashed police car. War tourism. Come visit me in Ukraine for some war tourism. I think that's most of it. I would have never guessed it was the police department. Whereas the policemen were very strict and were cruel. People don't like this building. This one in particular. Well, they showed them. All right, well, that was interesting for me. Hope it was interesting for you. Thanks for watching. Slava Ukraini. Thanks a lot.