An explanatory letter from Daina Lasmane, the director of the Dole History Museum, to an official at the Latvian SSR Ministry of Culture about the First River Daugava Festival was written in 1979. It alludes to some accusations against the organisers of the festival, but also the fact that the authorities did not want to voice any official accusations, which was rather typical in the 1970s and 1980s, when repressions against cultural personalities were often covert, or were based on the belief that a reprimand was enough to correct the behaviour of the people involved.