In late November 1972, I arrived in the district of Ludzen, where I was co-hosted by the instructor of the Central Committee of Komsomol of Latvia, for the plenum of the district committee. According to the established label, it was appropriate to be noted by the curator of the Komsomol in the party's district committee. The secretary of the RC KPL was on vacation, so he went to mark the first one, with whom he was also acquainted. I enter the office, and he sits thoughtful and sad. I ask what happened, how did things go? And he in response to me - I sit and think about how to separate the region from Latvia and join the Pskov region of the RSFSR. I have a grain melt in the district of 21.6 cc. with a hectare and I am the last in the republic, and in the neighboring, Sebežsky district of 16.5 and they are the best in the region. They have the whole party district in orders and medals, and I don’t make excuses.”
by Georgy Bondarenko