Collection of Soviet Military Vehicles
Infrastructure

A "propusk" or permission to cross the border regime zone was as mandatory as a bus ticket.

People's memory is sometimes quite short. Now, when everyone can go and go wherever they want, many cry about the lost cheap sausage, but they have already forgotten that right behind Mērsrags, in front of the road, a striped bomb often landed and armed Russian soldiers, called border guards, let them through only with written and stamped passes. And not just any resident of the Latvian SSR could receive a permit, but only those who had first received a so-called summons from the Roja or Kolka village council, on the basis of which, after ten days, they could (or could not) receive a visa for entry into the prohibited border zone at their militia unit. I had bought a house on this unfortunate coast of Kurzeme, so every spring I and my family members had to pray and humble themselves so that the authorities would renew the entry permit.