mountains in the north-east of the East European Plain. She was exiled from the Estonian SSR for eight years. At the labor camp in the Komi-Zyryan ASSR, she worked in a coal mine and married fellow prisoner Ülo Jõgi, an Estonian who had been convicted as a Finnish spy (he had been a veteran of the Erna group, organized jointly by Finnish military and German Abwehr) and exiled from Estonia for life. Thus, she and her husband could not return to Estonia until 1970. They both moved back to Ülo Jõgi's parental home in Tallinn in 1971. Back in Estonia, she worked as a secretary at an architect's office, and was also a shooting sports instructor at a school in Keila. In February 1998, Jõgi and her friend Paavel were awarded the Estonian Order of the Cross of the Eagle for their fight against the Soviet regime ("Freedom fighter of military merit") by the Estonian President Lennart Meri. Aili Jõgi and Ageeda Paavel are the only women awarded the Order of the Cross of the Eagle. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, Jõgi was politically active in the Estonian Pro Patria party. In that capacity, she took part in round table talks with opponents of the removal of the Bronze Soldier in 2007. References Decorations of the Republic of Estonia. Awarded in 1995-1998 Common grave for and a memorial to Red Army soldiers on Tõnismägi, Tallinn (PDF file) (Word file) Historical statement, compiled by Peeter Kaasik, for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Estonia, 2006 «Õhkijamemm»: kaua me seda pronkssõdurit kardame! Postimees, 27 May 2006 — An interview with Aili Jõgi (Partial translation to English) Hon sprängde bronsstatyns föregångare Dagens Nyheter, May 13, 2007. 1931 births 2017 deaths Estonian anti-communists Estonian women activists Estonian prisoners and detainees Gulag detainees Estonian independence activists Recipients of the Military Order of the Cross of the Eagle, Class III People from Tallinn