After regaining independence, estonians started their struggling road through unstable economy. Stratifaction of society strongly increased causing general tensions. Average lifetime decreased. Appearance of unemployment and loss of jobs was inevitable. Level of education was showing strong falling tendencies. The nation weakened. Entire population was constantly decreasing.
After 1995, the state started gradually developing. People were showing much stronger initiative. General state of life was getting better. Life in Estonia stayed relatively stable until 1998, when consequences of economical crisis in Russia declined again the rate of employment. Fortunately the nation was strong enough to get out of that "hole" after 2 years of struggle. Estonians are known as hardworkers.
Now they(we) have joined European Union. It has it`s pros and cons, but I see it as slowly giving up our independence. Differences between social classes have become so big. Expenditure wins over income. Poverty rate is too high, 35% of the population. It`s getting extremely expensive to live here, for some even impossible.
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Elli said...
to los primitivo: No, ofcourse it`s not a bad thing. it`s wonderful. I just wanted to make a point that, practically, Estonians started from zero and worked hard their way up. And I think that we were doing just fine before joining EU. And now no one can really garantee how the life here will look like after year 2007 when the currency will be changed to euros. Estonia is not in full control of itself. That`s what i mean by giving up...EU is in control now.
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