Twists and turns of history in the “Name of Kurzeme”: Lenin’s monument is still waiting for its profitable hour

One part of this amount was covered by the association “Saskaņa Latvijai – revival of the national economy”. One day’s salary of Liepaja theater employees will be added to this amount.

A truly summery time has begun, which allows for large-scale concreting The middle part of the tram bridge. But nothing definite can be said about the beginning of these works, because they do not have 5 million rubles.

What’s more, the Board has not paid the bridge builders 3 million rubles for the work already done. Therefore, the Tramway bridge will not be closed for concreting works in the near future.

Municipal police file

The employees of the kiosk on M. Ķempes Street were repeatedly fined 1,000 rubles for selling alcoholic beverages outside official working hours. Apparently, this punishment is no punishment at all for them.

Smoke and smoke

Smokes like a tar pot. It smokes, sometimes blocking the sun. The warship of the Russian Navy “Admiralis Zozulia” moored in the port of Liepāja behind the North Cemetery is spewing black smoke and soot over the heads of the small and large residents of Velnciems.

(..) But what poisons and how big are the doses of heavy metal waste contained in these regular eruptions? I didn’t get any answers even after calling the environmental protection authorities in the city. I just found out that, while dealing with the control of water composition, we have not yet reached the analysis of air pollution.

However, it just seems that the movement, which is close to nature protection, is currently more concerned with getting into the Saeima than with the acute problems of environmental cleanliness.

Police Chronicle

Around 19:00, Vladimir I was arrested at the “Kurzeme” trading house for petty hooliganism – peeping in an unauthorized place.

However, a foreign-made gas pistol with cartridges was found in the man’s pocket. The weapon was confiscated, the perpetrator is awaiting administrative punishment.

When the Darmstadt delegation visited Liepājathe guests confirmed that the Lenin monument we sent there is still waiting for its hour.

There is no way to sell it profitably. It is not at all profitable to sell a sculpture of a leader as a bronze.

Lines from letters

I decided to sell some of my belongings in the Central Market and unwittingly became a witness to the arbitrariness happening here. As early as five o’clock in the morning, hungover “workmen” start speculating on market table places that they have already occupied and demand 30-50 rubles for each of them.

When I expressed my dissatisfaction with what was happening, they were to hear insults and threats.

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We will continue browsing the archive to tell what our newspaper wrote about in the historically important year of 1993. It is a crucial and difficult time of change for our country. The Supreme Council of the Latvian SSR adopted a declaration on the restoration of the independence of the Republic of Latvia, “Kurzemes Vārds” in turn regained its name of the first free state.