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Artur Alliksaar

Died in 1966

Artur Alliksaar, born Alnek in Tartu on 15 April 1923, finished at the Hugo Treffner Gymnasium, began studying law and worked on the railway like his father. Enlisted in 1943 and 1944 in the Estonian Legion, he then lived for some time among the forest brothers. Arrested in 1949 for abuse of office, he spent eight years in the camps of Narva and Mordovia, was assigned in 1957 to the Vologda region and returned secretly to Tartu in 1958. His house burned down, he lodged in a shed with an earthen floor, worked at the brewery and on building sites, and died of cancer on 12 August 1966, aged forty-three.

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