Grave Digging

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For close to 15 months, the bodies of fallen soldiers have steadily filled up a hillside military cemetery in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv. Now, the old, unmarked graves of those killed in past wars are being exhumed to make way for the seemingly endless stream of dead since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

Later in the article we find out whom the graves belonged to. Sort off:

In the top section of the cemetery, city officials have begun exhuming the unmarked graves of soldiers who were buried as long ago as during World War I, young men who died early in the last century making way for those who have now fallen in this war.

These poor schmucks, whose graves were desecrated by Halychyna peasants could have been Russian Imperial soldiers, Austro-Hungarian soldiers, they could have been Czechs, they could have been Poles, as Lvov was a majority Polish city back in the day. Needless to say, their identity is not mentioned, and we will likely never find out…

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