“… then in Ivano Frankivsk, lots and lots of men, everywhere. college students, guys in stores, on the streets, waiting at the train and bus station.…”
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Ivano Frankivsk is, of course, in western Ukraine which is the homeland of ethnic Ukrainians whose first language is Ukrainian - not those ethnic Russians or native Russian speakers. Gotta keep THAT Western Ukrainian population far away from the meat grinders. We get it.