On 11 December 1944, Jõgi (former member of Erna long-range reconnaissance group, organized by Finnish Army together with Nazi Germany) was arrested by the Soviet authorities, accused of spying for United Kingdom.
Months later, he was sent to a Gulag labor camp in the Komi Republic, to the west of the Ural Mountains in the north-east of the East European Plain.
He was exiled from the Estonian SSR for life, but was eventually released in 1970.
During his exile, he married Aili Jõgi, a fellow Estonian who had been deported in 1946 for having blown up the preceding monument to the Soviet Bronze Soldier in Tallinn.
In February 1998 , Jõgi was awarded the Estonian Order of the Cross of the Eagle for his fight against Soviet occupation ("Freedom fighter of military merit") by the Estonian President Lennart Meri.