"I want to believe that it is still important for Latvians to have guys who, not fearing the threat, take active action instead of boasting at dinner tables – when you have a blood-alcohol level of one and a half per mille, it's easy to beat your chest and shout that I, lo and behold, will do this and that! But then the morning hangover comes, and everyone realises that it was just drunken bravado," says Gundars Kalve, a farmer and Latvian patriot, a man who was not afraid to destroy the Jēkabpils cannon, which no one will ever find again.