Claim: While Piłsudski dodged the bullets, the Lwów Province Governor, Kazimierz Grabowski, was wounded in the opening ceremony of the first Eastern Trade Fair; which by 1928, could boast neither 1,600 exhibitors nor 400 foreign firms.
Evidence: The opening ceremony of the first Eastern Trade Fair held on September 25, 1921, was marred by the failed attempt by a Ukrainian extremist, Stepan Fedak, to assassinate Poland's Chief of State, Józef Piłsudski. By 1928, the Fair could boast some 1,600 exhibitors, about 400 being foreign firms.