 On July 19, 1940, the Commander-in-chief of the Estonian Army Johan Laidoner was captured by the NKVD and deported together with his spouse to the town of Penza.Laidoner died in the Vladimir Prison Camp, Russia on March 13, 1953.President of Estonia, Konstantin Päts was arrested and deported by the Soviets to Ufa in Russia on July 30; he died in a psychiatric hospital at Kalinin (currently Tver), Russia in 1956.