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Enn Nõu interviews Mihkel Martsoo in his home in Uppsala in November 1985. The elderly man recalls his release from the prison camp in Siberia in 1957. Good communication skills and knowing local customs helped him to get the document for coming to Estonia, he managed to catch a ship en route to Krasnoyarsk and from there he could travel by train to Moscow. Martsoo was lucky to get from Moscow to Estonia thanks to a friendly militiaman. In his homeland, Martsoo worked in Tori while repeatedly applying for a permission to travel to Sweden in order to see his ...

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