Estonia

in which a small or weak person or organization tries to defeat another much larger or stronger opponent’ (Dictionary, 2016). The natural question to this arises, why discussions about such tactics should be important to the Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, popularly known as the three Baltic states? And indeed to analyse this topic in depth, the overarching subject is the threat for the security of the three Baltic states. What is the question which truly unites the three Baltic states? Some…

Romy Ruukel from Parnu, Estonia says “Estonia will always be the country of my childhood memories, but America is the country of my future. As for constantly wishing I am wherever I am not-I think that will always be my nature.”(4) Many have that perspective that immigrants don’t speak…

The Tehran Conference was held from November 28 to December 1st. It was a meeting between 3 countries to strengthen their ability to win World War II. The United States was represented by the current president Franklin Delano Roosevelt, The USSR was represented by Joseph Stalin and Great Britain by prime minister Winston Churchill. This conference was held in Tehran, Iran and they strategize against countries like Japan, Germany, and France. Getting all 3 parties together was not easy because…

after the war. Russia was by far the biggest country extending all the way to Austria Hungary, Germany, and Sweden. Europe After World War I: This map shows all of the changes that happened after World War I. The biggest changes were Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland were created as independent countries from land previously owned by Russia. Also, Austria-Hungary was split up and had to give land to Italy, Romania, the new independent country of Czechoslovakia, and the new…

Genocide: noun: the deliberate killing of a large group of people, especially those of a particular ethnic group or nation. Holodomor was a man-made mass genocide that affected millions of people in Ukraine between the years of 1932 and 1933. It all started when Joseph Stalin tried to create a new policy, the collectivization policy. The end goal of this new policy was to increase the productivity of farmers by removing them from small farms and relocating them to much larger farms and using…

lackluster effects of flat tax to bolster the economy are several Eastern European states whom adopted a flat tax system in the late 1900’s or early 2000’s. After support for communism declined in the late 1900’s, several Eastern European states (Estonia in 1994, Slovakia in 2004, Czech Republic in 2008) adopted a flat tax. However, flat taxes failed to significantly help the economic situation of countries where they were adopted, and it is difficult to ascertain whether how impactful taxes are…

Joseph Stalin was born on December 18,1878, he was born into a poor family and was an only child. His father was a shoemaker, an his mom was a laundress. As a young child he contracted smallpox, which left him with many facial scars.When Stalin was in his teens he got a scholarship to a seminary in a city called Tblisi to study priesthood, in the Georgian Orthodox Church. In his free time there he secretly started reading the Communist Manifesto, by Karl Marx. He shortly got expelled for not…

family and me. Latvia is a very charming and captivating country with its beautiful landscapes. The lovely landscape of Latvia includes flat lowlands as well as hills. Amid the green hills are rivers and lakes. Located near Baltic countries including Estonia, Lithuania, Russia, and Belarus, Latvia spans across…

was introduced to history for the first time by Lenin and Marx’s. Here is the list of the all countries that the Soviet Union had under control and the date they joined at that time. Azerbaijan formed in 1936, along with Armenia 1936, Belarus 1922, Estonia 1940, Georgia 1936, Kazakhstan 1936, Kyrgyzstan 1935, Latvia 1940, Lithuania 1940, Moldova 1922, Russia 1922, Tajikistan 1929, Turkmenistan 1924, Ukraine 1922, and Uzbekistan…

Minecraft Username: JasonOfRome Nation You are applying for: Denmark Why do you want to lead this nation? (At least one paragraph.) Due to current conditions of Denmark being leaderless I take this as an opportunity to lead the nation to be greater than it is already. Sweden currently wants to integrate small parts of Denmark taking the use of it not having a leader to discuss it with. If I were the leader of Denmark we would establish a stronger government bond with Sweden's current king ,Erik…