Krakių bunkeris: dviejų partizanų žūties vieta

"We started digging slowly, hoping to find the remains of the bunker's logs, but we didn't find them, our find was only a rusty grenade. We dug up two powerful stones and then it became clear that we were in the right place," says Pranas Trakinis, commander of the Mažeikiai Rifle Company, about the bunker's reconstruction work. The place was not chosen by chance: "On one side - the Venta River, on the other - the Ubagynas and Maigai forests. [...] There was a path nearby, paved with huge stones, which left no traces when walking on." The memory of the partisans was immortalized in several stages: in 1999, a small oak cross was erected, in 2005 - a pillar in the shape of a Vytis cross, and the remains of the partisans were reburied in the Viekšniai cemetery. "We dug up two powerful stones and then it became clear that we were in the right place - according to witnesses, the bunker was between those stones, and the partisans would jump inside through them to confuse uninvited guests," Trakinis says about the discovery of the historical site.