On March 25, 1949 Kārlis Guļevskis from Valgale saved his bedridden granddaughter from being deported by the Soviet authorities. The rest of the family was sent to Siberia and returned only after Joseph Stalin died, reported Latvian Radio on March 24.
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In the 19th century Tsarist Russia fought several wars with the Ottoman Empire, with the last one taking place in 1877, notable as mass conscription was called in the Russian Empire. Many Latvians fought against the Turks, but it's a lesser known fact that hundreds of Ottoman Turkish prisoners of war made it to the wintry hills of Latvia.