A story about forest - Kalju Kask.docx
https://soundcloud.com/triin-nooska/jutt-metsast-kalju-kask-19012020/s-TuZD8
Your story is a lesson for life. I can't imagine the suffering of the populations during that time. But I am happy to read that at least there was a better ending for Kalju Kask's family.
When I read your story I thought '0h my god' what a horrible event! Why were the people deported? Thank you
Deportation was a means of weakening the local population of Estonia and many other countries or nations to better suppress the people. It happened during and after the Second World War and was done by Soviet Union (I hope the name is correct, the names have been an issue also). In the biggest deportation in March 1949, about 20000 (yes, twenty thousand) people were sent to Novosibirsk and Krasnojarsk, which is north from the border between Mongolia and Kazachstan. Pretty much to a wild wild and usually harshly cold Russia.
What is the name of the city where the story took place?
That was not a city but a small village called Lohusuu in Torma parish near Lake Peipsi in eastern Estonia. I even know the name of the farmhouse - Nõmme. And Kalju Kask was then, among locals, called Nõmme Kalju because of where he was born in.