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How did Kaja Kallas’s family history influence her political career?

Kaja Kallas’s mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother were deported to Siberia by Soviet authorities in 1949 and were only allowed to return home during the post-Stalin “Thaw” period. Her father, Siim Kallas, was a high-ranking Communist Party member but became a reformist and political leader in Estonia, founding the Reform Party that she eventually led.