Signage

spotted at the bus station recently while waiting in line for tickets: 

Our motto- serve passengers.

impatient ones - patiently

shy ones - carefully

easily offended ones - tactfully

rude ones - with restraint

finicky ones - with consideration

:) Good luck with that! :) 

and this one downtown which caught my attention because it's about an extremely sensitive and political issue: Here, behind the walls of the jail, in the 40's and 50's the Bolshevik and the Nazi regimes imprisoned and tortured thousands of Ukrainian patriots. Eternal monument to the ones who perished.
Now- the Nazi bit isn't controversial- it's totally politically correct here to hate the Nazis for what they did during the war.** The bit about the Ukrainian patriots being tortured by the Bolsheviks, though, is painful and controversial. There are still families of Ukrainian Resistance fighters living side by side with the families of the Red Army Soldiers who hunted them down and killed them. One of my teachers in Lviv got all hot about it one day. Her dad was a good Soviet and career military man. She's a native Russian speaker. Lviv is about as hot-blooded Ukrainian as you can get. The Resistance fighters are still considered to be heroes there. And they have no use for the Russians. And especially the Red Army. My teacher was angry because 'they' were calling her dad an evil person and butcher. She thinks of him as her personal hero. Ouch. So- this sign caught my eye. Ukraine co-exists with herself.. but uneasily, at times. In many parts of the country, a sign like this wouldn't even be considered much less put up. 

**In the US, we study, read and know about the 'Western Front'. For much of WW II, Ukraine was the 'Eastern Front'. And it was dreadful. Recently, we visited some friends and the lady (a few years older than me) was recalling some of her mom's war tales. When her mom was a girl, they were going to town in a wagon. They looked out and saw a field and soldiers systematically shooting... Jews. One regiment of Nazis executed about a thousand people a day (mostly Jews) for (a week- can't remember exactly the time period). The Ukrainian Jewish population was devastated during that time. Entire villages all but disappeared.