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==Popular culture== [[File:Скульптор відтворює із шоколаду фігури левів.jpg|thumb|160px|A [[confectioner]] makes [[chocolate]] lions at the Festival of Chocolate]] The native residents of the city are jokingly known as the Lvivian [[batiar]]y (someone who's mischievous). Lvivians are also well known for their way of speaking that was greatly influenced by the [[Lwów dialect|Lvivian gwara]] (talk).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://balzatul.multiply.com/journal/item/1051 |title=Lviv dialect |publisher=Balzatul.multiply.com |access-date=3 May 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120209084934/http://balzatul.multiply.com/journal/item/1051 |archive-date=9 February 2012}}</ref> ''[[Wesoła Lwowska Fala]]'' (Polish for ''Lwów's Merry Wave'') was a weekly radio program of the [[Polish Radio Lwow]] with ''Szczepko'' and ''Tonko'', later starring in ''[[Będzie lepiej]]'' and ''[[The Vagabonds (1939 film)|The Vagabonds]]''. ''[[The Shoes of the Fisherman (novel)|The Shoes of the Fisherman]]'', both [[Morris L. West]]'s novel and its 1968 film adaptation, had the titular pope as having been its former [[archbishop]].{{clarify|date=May 2018}}{{citation needed|date=May 2018}} Lviv has established many city feasts, such as coffee and chocolate feasts, cheese & wine holiday, the feast of pampukh, the Day of Batyar, Annual Bread Day and others. Over 50 festivals happen in Lviv, such as [[Leopolis Jazz Fest]], an international jazz festival; the Leopolis Grand Prix, an international festival of vintage cars; international festival of academic music Virtuosi; Stare Misto Rock Fest; medieval festival Lviv Legend; international [[Etnovyr]] folklore festival, initiated by UNESCO; international festival of visual art Wiz-Art; international theatrical festival Golden Lion; Lviv Lumines Fluorescent Art Festival; Festival of Contemporary Dramaturgy; international contemporary music festival Contrasts; Lviv international literary festival, Krayina Mriy; gastronomic festival Lviv on a Plate; organ music festival Diapason; international independent film festival KinoLev; international festival LvivKlezFest; and international media festival MediaDepo.{{citation needed|date=May 2018}} Lviv honors the memory of Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevych. The Lviv regional council approved an appeal to the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine on March 16, 2021, requesting that the largest stadium here be renamed after these two men.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.ukrweekly.com/uwwp/local-governments-name-stadiums-after-bandera-and-shukhevych-provoking-protest-from-israel-and-poland/ |title=Local governments name stadiums after Bandera and Shukhevych, provoking protest from Israel and Poland |first=Roman |last=Tymotsko |website=The Ukrainian Weekly |date=19 March 2021 |access-date=27 February 2022 |archive-date=27 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220227100758/https://www.ukrweekly.com/uwwp/local-governments-name-stadiums-after-bandera-and-shukhevych-provoking-protest-from-israel-and-poland/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Bandera led the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, which fought alongside Nazi Germany during WWII, killing thousands of Jews and Poles.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/hundreds-of-ukrainian-nationalists-march-in-in-honor-of-nazi-collaborator/ |title=Hundreds of Ukrainian nationalists march in honor of Nazi collaborator |website=The Times of Israel |access-date=27 February 2022 |archive-date=27 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220227100757/https://www.timesofisrael.com/hundreds-of-ukrainian-nationalists-march-in-in-honor-of-nazi-collaborator/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1940, Shukhevych commanded a military unit of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists (OUN) that actively collaborated with the Nazis.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/03/09/israeli-envoy-in-ukraine-slams-naming-of-soccer-stadium-in-honor-of-nazi-ally-roman-shukhevych/ |title=Israeli Envoy in Ukraine Slams Naming of Soccer Stadium in Honor of Nazi Ally Roman Shukhevych |website=Algemeiner.com |access-date=27 February 2022 |archive-date=27 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220227111348/https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/03/09/israeli-envoy-in-ukraine-slams-naming-of-soccer-stadium-in-honor-of-nazi-ally-roman-shukhevych/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
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