Interview with Mihkel Martsoo in Askvägen on November 23, 1985, 2/2 (1985)

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 family. He finally got the permission in 1961. Then he traveled to Leningrad and from there took a plane to Helsinki. In Sweden a German doctor visited him, they had been together in the prison camp in Siberia.
Martsoo shows Enn Nõu photographs of the military school and answers Enn's questions.