Otto Tief - Aftermath

Aftermath

Otto Tief was arrested by the Soviet authorities on 10 October 1944. In 1945 he was sentenced to ten years imprisonment in the Siberian gulag. Returning to Estonia in 1956, he was forced to leave for the Ukraine until 1965, when he was permitted to return to the Baltic region to live just beyond the Estonian border in Latvia. When Otto Tief died on 5 March 1976, the Soviet security services would not allow his burial in the national cemetery in Tallinn. When Estonia had reattained her national independence in 1991, he was reinterred there in 1993, in the presence of a large number of people who came to remember and honor him.