Ülo Jõgi (12 March 1921, in

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– 14 May 2007, in Tallinn) was an Estonian war historian who was active in the Estonian resistance against the

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occupation of

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. On 11 December 1944, Jõgi (former member of Erna long-range recce group, organized by

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together with

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) was arrested by the Soviet authorities, accused of spying for UK. Months later, he was sent to a

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labor camp in the

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, to the west of the

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in the north-east of the

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. He was exiled from the

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for life, but was eventually released in 1970. He returned to

Keila Keila (german: Kegel) is a town and an urban municipality in Harju County in north-western Estonia, 25 km southwest of Tallinn. Keila is also the location of administrative buildings of the surrounding Keila Parish, a rural municipality se ...

, a year later. During his exile, he married Aili Jõgi, a fellow Estonian who had been deported in 1946 for having blown up the preceding monument to the Soviet Bronze Soldier in Tallinn. In February 1997, Jõgi was awarded the Estonian

Order of the Cross of the Eagle The Order of the Cross of the Eagle ( et, Kotkaristi teenetemärk; french: Ordre de la Croix de l'Aigle) was instituted in 1928 by the Estonian Defence League to commemorate the tenth anniversary of Estonian independence. It was adopted as a sta ...

for his fight against Soviet occupation ("Freedom fighter of military merit") by the Estonian President

Lennart Meri Lennart Georg Meri (; 29 March 1929 – 14 March 2006) was an Estonian politician, writer, and film director. He served as the second president of Estonia from 1992 to 2001. Meri was among the leaders of the movement to restore Estonian indepen ...

References

Suri Erna salga liige Ülo Jõgi
Postimees, 15 May 2007.
Decorations of the Republic of Estonia : Awarded in 1995 - 1998

Erna salga liige Ülo Jõgi saadeti viimsele teekonnale

Aaviksoo: oma vabaduse võlgneme inimestele nagu Ülo Jõgi

Mart Laar: Ülo Jõgi: Erna võitles Eesti eest!, 23 August 2007 Maaleht
1921 births 2007 deaths People from Tallinn Writers from Tallinn Estonian non-fiction writers 20th-century Estonian writers Tallinn University of Technology alumni Soviet people accused of spying for the West Gulag detainees Recipients of the Military Order of the Cross of the Eagle, Class III Estonian spies {{estonia-writer-stub