Commie rule was horrible shit. Less so in Estonia, because we managed to fool the russian orcs a bit and put Estonians in charge.
Still. My mother frequented the gatherings of free spirits in the 60s and then found the doctor, whose flat they visited, was put into prison for 5 years.
The reason was that he had old poetry books from independence time and he had underlined the word “Freedom”. That underlining bumped the sentence from 2 to 5.
I am truly sorry for you and your mother.
That would have seemed a never-ending nightmare.