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  The caves are located in central Kyiv, not a bombed-out village.
context: Ok teachable moment. 
  Ukraine is a country, filled with Ukrainians it’s people which forms a society. 
  Culture is an intrinsic requirement of human development that evolves from a society. It defines people who live within that region, in this case Ukraine.
  It encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, and habits of the individuals in these groups.
  Now overtime societies change, they evolve, they branch out. They split and form new societies and cultures from one another i.e Ukraine and Russia. They can even merge together to make a completely new society and culture.
  People living in the same place as you a 1,000 years ago would be completely different to you today. The only way we know we are linked to those people is with what we find in the ground or hidden away protected from the elements and passage of time. 
  Sometimes the things we find don’t make sense like we are missing puzzle pieces. So it’s important when we do find new things about people that lived before us we preserve these pieces of culture and society so that when in a 1,000 years from now people will have the opportunity to see what came before them. 
  A timeline of humanity.
  Title of the post is still horrible. Linking the request for the protection of a cultural site is the same as joining the war. It makes it sound like intelligentsia are trying to distract the Ukrainian government from fighting.
  Edit - Title comment. >
  
  The "second front" characterization is by one professor, and is not about caves specifically but about corruption in Ukraine. You may characterize this person as "intelligentsia", but they are just as passionate about Ukrainian identity as the soldiers on the front lines and the officers commanding the war.
  
  Despite the find, the developers and their allies in Kyiv’s city council are continuing to push for planning permission and the vote on the site has not been removed from the agenda. Perov, together with Kyiv councillors, archaeologists, and the deputy head of Ukraine’s culture ministry, are gathering the documents necessary to classify the area as protected before the council’s next vote.
  But efforts of this kind are not always successful. Perov’s fight is part of an bigger effort by civil society actors against the rampant corruption among the country’s elites, a longstanding problem in Ukraine that has endured despite the war. [Timur Bobrovskyy, head of archaeology at the St Sofia state museum in Kyiv] has described it as a “second front”.
  
  Putting public scrutiny on a development application is something that happens at the municipal level. If Kyiv is functional enough to be reviewing these applications, they are functional enough that activists cannot "distract" the Kyiv local government from a warfighting effort. >
  
  You’re right.
  My gripe mostly stems from reddit users tendency to just read the title.
  I used the term “intelligentsia” because of the amount of academics/intellectuals along with the deputy head of culture ministry trying to fight for it. 
  Fighting corrupt city councils that favour nepotism and unrestricted land development that lines the pockets of either the councillors themselves or a beneficiary seems to be a global phenomenon. Stories like this about city councils ends up in the media in Australia on a regular occurrence. 
  Hopefully a positive outcome eventuates >
  
  So ukraine has their own troll caves? >
  
  A "second front"? Fucking really? It is some caves. Sure it is cool, but what is the real cultural significance? Are they going to build a museum and give tours? Or are they just going to close off land and be done with it? >
  
  Preservation of Middle Age site for a country that’s fighting to protect its history, identity, and culture… crazy concept. Most higher learning institutions rely on sites like these for education, training, and historical references. Sometimes there is only so much you can learn from a book or looking at pictures when you can see it in person.
  I do agree the title is atrocious though for what they are referring to.
  Edit - added context >
  
  Yeah except it is in a city that is being bombed and destroyed. They will need all the land and resources they can get to rebuild and recover. A couple caves with some alcoves and inscriptions are far less valuable than new housing that can help the people of a war torn country