The Road to Freedom Estonia s Rise from Soviet Vassal State to One of the Freest Nations on Earth 1st Edition by Matthew, Peter, Konstantin

Estonia is a testament to the productive and ennobling power of freedom. After waves of successive invasions from East and West, the small and fledgling country on the Baltic Sea was dragooned into the Soviet Union in 1940. There its people were trapped for five decades. Eventually, Estonia’s workers and intellectuals decided they had nothing to lose but their chains. So, they joined hands—literally—in a mostly peaceful revolution. Finally free, the Estonians thrived, achieving a degree of prosperity and equality promised but never realized under socialism.