I have an unrelated question about semantics mainly:
You say in 1939 Lvov's population was 60% Poles, 7% Ukrainian and 33% Jewish, to the best of my knowledge Polish and Ukrainian is a determination of nationality, Jewish is a determination of religion as such that 33% must have either been Polish, Ukrainian or anther nationality.
Regarding Austria, will Austria's purchase of gas keep the Russian economy afloat?
If not then it really doesn't matter what Austria does.
Having looked at more information on this it would appear that the EU has voted unanimously in support of these sanctions which indicates Austria is supporting them and understands the consequences that may come with that support.
What this shows is that if it was Putin's aim to further fracture the western world and weaken it then he has badly miscalculated as the one thing he has done is galvanised the western world into a stronger unit, I would be very surprised if we do not see a number of countries putting in quiet applications to NATO over the next couple of months.
About Lvov : the problem is that these are official Polish figures and that they indicate that in Lvov (it was different in other Polish cities ) the authorities did not consider Jewish Poles as Poles,but as Jewish and Jewish Ukrainians not as Ukrainians ,but as Jews . The same for the Ukrainians .
What the opinion was of the Jews,we don't know and no one cared about it .
About Austria : one can not use what the Austrian government is saying as a proof for the intention of the Austrian government,as it is a public secret in Austria that there is a big difference between what the government is saying and what it is doing .
80 % of gas in Austria comes from Russia : if this stops, the economic consequences for the economy,the social consequences for the population and the electoral consequences for the government ( corrupt Christian Democrats and Greens of whom the corruption is still not proved ) are catastrophic .
1 million households ( mainly in the cities ) are depending on Russian gas for cooking and heating , oil comes mostly from Kazakhstan .
Even the fanatical Greens are very circumspect to attack the use of gas and oil .
22 % of the Austrian energy consumption comes from gas ( 8,8 billion of cubic metres and these 8,8 billion are only a tiny fraction of the gas that is passing through Austria : 42 billion cubic metres .80 % is going to other countries .
Dozens of millions of people in Europe depend on Russian gas for cooking and heating and the politicians know very well what will happen if the stocks will become exhausted and people will be hungry and without heating : in a few weeks the price of gas has tripled in Belgium .
