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Marju Lauristin (born April 7 1940) is an Estonian politician and social scientist. She is the daughter of Johannes Lauristin and Olga Lauristin. Her father signed away Estonia’s freedom to the Soviet Union in 1940. Together with Edgar Savisaar in 1988 Lauristin established Rahvarinne the first large-scale independent political movement in Estonia since the beginning of the Soviet occupation. In 1990 she was deputy speaker of the Estonian parliament.
