| Estonia Page |
| Panoramic of Tallinn, Estonia |
| Estonia has a population of 1.3 million and is 1/6 the size of Colorado. The country first got it's independence in 1920. That lasted until 1939 when Hitler and Stalin divided the Baltic countries. The Germans took back the Baltics in 1941 and lost the countries to the Soviets in 1944. The Soviet Union then took over this small country with the occupation lasting until 1991. Estonia is a member of the EU and has a flat tax of 20% for Social Security, Medical care and Income taxes. It also has a VAT tax of 18%. Social Security pays $450 a month. Estonia is one of the few countries in the world with no national debt. Estonia has a per capita income of $21,000 a year. |
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| See how this small country lost it's freedom. See the Occupation Museums. See how they protested Soviet occupation with the Baltic Human Chain. |
| The following video is of an Estonian woman telling about how her family was affected by the Soviet Occupation. She tells about how her uncles hid in the forest for years because of fear of being sent to the Gulag (Soviet Prisons). She tells about the thousands of families broken up. She tells of how her family survived by growing all their own food but had to turn over all their machinery and work animals to the Soviets. She tells about those who did not cooperate and were sent off to the Gulags. Also see the monument built to commemorate those who were sent off to the Gulag under the Lithuania Page and the "Hill of Crosses". |
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