Propaganda bullish from outsider

The 🐮💩 propaganda is so obvious. Why you people love to write about something you just don’t know about?

So as a background, I was born in Leningrad, USSR and brought in young age to ENSV, Tallinn by father who lived here. Father parents are Belarussians, so you touched both of my worlds I know a lot about. I am proud of my ancestors and that I was born in great country.

Where should I start? All your article is filled with propaganda: mentioning ‘occupation’ instead of ‘free from nazi occupants’, life in Belarussia is ‘bad’ and in Estonia is ‘good’, not much evidence, a lot of thoughts.

You started as mentioned Mart Laar as a great figure. This man was so corrupt, sold all what he could and vanished. He ‘stabilized economy’ you say? Really?

Innovation you say and investments? This was brought by countries, who made USSR disappear. They wanted to have own ‘guy’ close to USSR / Russian borders. So it became and investment of ‘West’.

Joining EU was a total disaster for people, who believed the lie told by politicians. No prices rise they said. No economic disadvantage they said. What this EU join brought is a lot of people living worse than before, except the government, who begin to receive and split EU money between them.

The people who benefit from that was who easily moved to Finland and other nordic countries for better salaries work. (hey, Ukraine dream) A lot of Estonians work in other EU countries and their family left here, in Estonia.

About country venture successes…

People, please stop calling Skype Estonian venture, did you at least googled or wikid it?

First released in August 2003, Skype was created by Swedish Niklas Zennström and Danish Janus Friis, in cooperation with Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu, and Jaan Tallinn, Estonians who developed the backend that was …

Also you guys forget to mention the Transferwise, because it has the same problem.

TransferWise is an Estonian developed and UK-based peer-to-peer money transfer service launched in January 2011 by Kristo Käärmann and Taavet Hinrikus with headquarters in London and offices in Tallinn and New York.

But still TransferWise have more Estonian in it than Skype.

Team developed the latest Windows was comprised of a lot of Indians, does this makes Windows Indian product?

Estonia and Belarus were in nearly the same position following in- dependence and made opposite decisions about their future.

USSR made a serious investment in infrastructure of Estonia and Tallinn at least. Most of the USSR built building still used by people and nothing new or better coming, except company offices in city centre. Lasnamae (the ‘russian’ district) was built by my grandfather and his people in the USSR times.

Belarus was on it’s own. Nobody filled it with money and infrastructure. It was independently and while we lived in Estonia, people were still lived better than us here. They have own houses, cows, pigs and ways to live.

Country had it’s own companies:

Eesti Energia was recently sold a lot of shares to other Sweden investors. Which lead to rise of electric prices.
Estonian Air was tried to be on float by tax money, but after failed raise investment from EU was at last closed and reformed into Nordic Aviation Group
Elion (Eesti Telekom) now bought by Telia Sonera.

This tendency of selling own assets is not quite innovative, isn’t it?

President Ilves of Estonia

Now you mention the guy, who left Estonia and went US before and came back as ‘winner’? Bah, even Estonians doesn’t respect or like him a lot. It was just appointed by government.

I met was Karoli Hindriks, the CEO of Jobbatical, a company that blends the concept of a job and a sabbatical, matching employers and talent for short-term jobs that might involve sending a software developer from Sweden to Thailand for a three-month “jobbatical.”

This is what Estonia really become, the IT outsource for other prosper countries, who don’t want to pay the higher price in their own country. Just a resource, which can be thrown to junk as used condom after use.

Today Estonia is one of the most connected countries in the world. It has the world’s fastest Internet speeds and universal medical health records, something that the United States has been struggling with for years, with no end in sight.

Oh, so now you compare 2 countries with different size and population, eh? It’s easy math, how many cables is required to cover US and how many for Estonia? It was done in decades, followed on the old telephone network of Eesti Telecom.

In 2007, Estonia became the first country to allow online voting in a general election.

You know why other countries don’t allow it? Because it’s easy to fake it. Anyone using the IT systems in Estonia knows how bad it is and how much it cost to develop. It’s easy to fake the votes, so now there is no need to vote now, it can be done by ‘proper people’.

Ninety-five percent of Estonians file their tax returns online — doing so takes about five minutes.

Hey, this is good thing, and now you don’t even need to do so, it’s done automatically from this year. But know what? How this is achieved? Because of surveillance and tracking of all financial transactions of companies and people. Because all is in computers, not on paper like in ‘other’ countries we don’t name here.

In December 2014, Estonia made yet another bold move, offering what it calls “e-residency” to any person in the world.

This is mainly for companies, who want to have lesser taxes. It’s just easier process to wash your money and pay less to your country.

Estonia has demonstrated how innovation in the industries of the future can do more than just generate wealth and employment; it can enhance our civic and political life. In this respect we should stop asking about the next Silicon Valley and start asking about the next Estonia.

So let’s sum it up.

Constitution #37 point states:

Everyone has the right to be taught in Estonian. The language of teaching in national minority educational institutions is chosen by the educational institution.

And still ‘minorities’ are not allowed to be taught in Russian. (so this just means, government don’t care about constitution). There are ‘russian’ cities and it’s not minorities, but still schools are obliged to use Estonian, otherwise they will not receive enough money to survive.

Capitalism country, where the people with money make laws and rules to own and use the ‘regular’ people. Most of laws only benefits companies.
Average salary comes from 360 euro minimum wage (a lot of people get this) and 5–10k politicians salaries (with full gas, phone and ‘presentative’ costs paid by people taxes). This followed by hype ‘Sillicon Valley of EU’ made rent costs from about 200 euro (good luck to survive on minimum wage without apartment available from your parents).
Original agriculture places just abandoned and thrown away, but no new places are built. It’s just a lot of free ground everywhere around, slowly sold to other countries.
People work in other EU countries to make their family living better here, because salaries here is shitty, even in ‘IT’ and good in other countries.
Demographics is bad and people leaving the country so often, that they made law to restrict time you can spend outside Estonia unless you want your citizenship revoked.
Because of specific parties policies, transit from Russia vanished.
Country stopped to produce something and just hoping to get enough donation and taxes to prosper, without any backup plans.
It began it’s turn to more capitalism, like eradicating the free medicine we had before, implementing the queue for medical help (wait more than 6 months for a visit or pay now 50 euro and have it tomorrow).
Declining the free mobile traffic in all tele-companies (they decided this in group), which was free a lot of years before.
Social system which just lets you die or live on a street. You will probably not live to your pension age, which grows more and more every year.
Where laws of being sick so bad, that people work being sick, leading to even more people being sick, because it’s too costly to be sick.

So be happy about the place you are living in and stop comparing countries, you know nothing about.

Your point that all should just focus on IT and live on, but ‘xcuse me, who will feed you? Will you grow your food in a microwave oven? Agriculture for years was and is an important part of the world and you comparing 2 countries with a different focus?

I never mentioned a lot about Belarus, but that’s because they live same like before all this time. Stability. They don’t need a fancy new iPhone every year, they are not touched by a blight of capitalism a lot. They are happy. Ask about happines people here, not the companies owners, but regular people and you will see the difference, which you can’t understand.

So next time you will give your A/B testing, make sure to use Google at least.