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Interview with policitian and editor Aksel Mark in his home in Uppsala on July 17, 1986. He shortly recalls of his home and father, completing two years of elementary school instead of four in Karaski. When he talks about the War of Independence, he remembers the refugees and his father's imprisonment. Mark served in the artillery of the defence forces. He studied agronomy at the University of Tartu and recalls his lecturers. Memories of the fraternity "Veljesto". He started to work as an agricultural adviser in Rakvere in 1937 and continued in Viru-Jaagupi. Aksel Mark points out the positive aspects ...

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