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The bodies keep the score in Lviv

At the Lychakiv cemetery in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv the bodies keep the score.

Within its confines the more than 300,000 graves offer a tangled insight into the labyrinthine history of this eastern European city that even now goes by four different names.

There are Polish generals, mathematicians and philosophers; Ukrainian composers, theologians and playwrights; Soviet and Russian aviators, inventors and academics.

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