On Košradznieki relations with Soviet army

Foto: Dainis Karkluvaldis

Imants Upner's memories of the Soviet era.

The relations of the Kosradors with the Soviet army were very good. The only thing you were not allowed was to go to the sea. There was a place in Košrags where you could go to the sea shore in the summer, from 08:00 in the morning to 19:00 in the evening. One lane was harnessed on the beach with horses, the other in the dune area, where they still wanted to lay a cable in the eighties. The barbed wire fence also enclosed the beach to the place where it was allowed to stay. In the mid-fifties, soldiers of the Soviet Army Penitentiary Battalion lived in Košrags Žokos, making the Ventspils-Kolka road. The branch of the road (as in all Liv villages) also wanted to be built on Košrags, but the residents of the elderly village opposed it because they were afraid of new exits and repression. As a result, a branch of the road to the village was built only in the late eighties. Until then, the road went only through Pitrags and Mazirbe.

Storyteller: Imants Upners; Wrote down this story: Juris Smaļinskis