About Kaja Kallas And The Euro Past

It’s true that a lot of decent people in Europe suffered under the Nazis. Also under the Bolsheviks. Between the two wars and also, for some, after the second war. Don’t kid yourselves—this holds true for western European countries as well as for eastern European countries. But most attention gets paid to the countries that were part of the Warsaw Pact—like Poland, East Germany, etc.—or were outright parts of the USSR—like Estonia.

Kaja Kallas is the current PM of Estonia and has been nominated to become—no kidding, this is the title— High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. Kallas, who is fiercely Russo-phobic, likes to play the victim card:

After World War II, during the March 1949 mass deportation of people, the Stalinist regime forcibly displaced Kallas' mother Kristi, six months old at the time, to Siberia with her mother and grandmother. She was able to return to Soviet-occupied Estonia in 1959.

Her actual family history is rather interesting, in the way that it shows that some people always seem to land on their feet:

Lord Bebo @MyLordBebo

“But a part of Kallas’ family was deported for 10 years”

-> Sure for being a nazi, who collaborated with Hitler.

In the story of “Kaya Kallas - from a family of repressed people” there is an interesting detail in addition to Kallas’s father, the director of the Estonian republican branch of the USSR Savings Bank.

Kallas is allowed to claim that she is from a family of repressed people by her mother, who, in infancy, along with her mother (Kaya’s grandmother) and the rest of the family, was deported to Siberia in 1949.

The family was expelled because its head was a member of "Omakaitse" - a paramilitary Estonian organization created by the Nazis in 1941, which participated in the fight against partisans and Jews, as well as in protecting the borders from the Leningrad region - so that people from the a famine zone did not penetrate into well-fed Nazi-led Estonia.

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Lord Bebo @MyLordBebo

Jul 3

Estonia’s Kallas being honest …

9:55 AM · Jul 3, 2024

But it doesn’t end there, in 1991. Her father’s rise didn’t skip a beat after the Cold War.

Her father, Siim Kallas, served as chairman of the Bank of Estonia from 1991 to 1995, as prime minister of Estonia from 2002 to 2003, and as a European Commissioner from 2004 to 2014.

Also, despite her extreme Russo-phobic rhetoric, Kallas profited considerably from her husband’s business links to Russia—including after the start of the Special Military Operation.

In August 2023, the media reported that Kallas's husband, Arvo Hallik, had a 24.9% share in the transportation company Stark Logistics, which had continued to transport raw materials to Russia following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, despite Kallas having previously called for Estonian companies to cease operations in Russia. The company had generated approximately €1.5 million in revenue from providing a transport service to a company operating in Russia since the beginning of the invasion.