Upon his release, in 1957, Alliksaar was not allowed to return to Estonia and lived in the Vologda oblast.
In 1958, he secretly returned to Tartu and worked in a brewery, in construction and for the railway.
In addition to imprisonment, his house was burned down and he was forced to live in a shed with a dirt floor while his wife and son suffered with pneumonia.
He wrote one play, Nimetu Saar (Nameless Island), which he lived to see in print.
The complete collection of his poems, Päikesepillaja (Lavishing Sunshine), was published in 1997, and became a bestseller.