Friendly Ragaciems border guard
As the time of change approached in Latvia, the coast guard became more friendly.
During the Soviet era, this was the only place on the entire Latvian coast, where a barbed wire fence was stretched all the way to the sea shore and partly to the sea. So - the only place where it was impossible to walk along the beach due to a military object. I remember that at the end of the eighties (1989?) We had a high school class evening in Ragaciems. Then, with a couple of classmates, we deliberately "stumbled" in the territory of the fenced beach, where we were instantly "arrested" by two soldiers armed with Kalashnikov-type machine guns. They were not aggressive, but rather friendly - we took photos together and we went our own way. The changes that were already approaching had also affected the attitude of security guards towards "border violators".
