Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A ranar 2 ga Fabrairun 1944 an gama kewaye Leningrad kuma sojojin Soviet sun kasance a kan iyakar da Estonia. Ba su yi nasarar shiga ba
, Soviets sun kaddamar da Tartu Offensive a ranar 10 ga Agusta, da Baltic Offensive a ranar 14 ga Satumba tare da sojojin da suka kai miliyan 1.5. Babban Kwamandan Sojojin Jamus ya ba da umarnin Operation Aster a ranar 16 ga Satumba, inda sojojin Estonia za su rufe janyewar Jamus. Ba da daɗewa ba bayan da Soviet ta sake mamaye babban birnin Estonia Tallinn, aikin farko na NKVD shi ne dakatar da duk wanda ya tsere daga ƙasar; duk da haka, 'yan gudun hijirar da yawa sun tsere zuwa Sweden ko Finland, musamman' yan Sweden na Estonia, waɗanda suka zauna a gabar tekun Estonia tun zamanin Danish da Sweden Estonia. NKVD ta kuma yi niyya ga mambobin Kwamitin Kasa na Jamhuriyar Estonia. 'Yan'uwan Estonian Forest (wanda aka kafa a 1941) da farko sun ci gaba da kasancewa a lokacin da Soviet ta sake dawowa. Ranar VE ta 1945 ba ta kawo dawo da 'yancin kai ga Estonia ba, kuma' yan uwan Forest sun sake ci gaba da yakin neman kashe manyan sojojin Soviet da jami'an NKVD.