Part of Kallas’ family did actually collaborate with the nazis. Kallas is allowed to claim that she is from a family of repressed people by her mother, who, in infancy, along with her mother 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 escaping the famine did not penetrate into nazi-led Estonia.