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I'm not sure if their flag is an actual depiction of a winter landscape (sky, forest, snow) but it sure as hell looks awesome.
2 out of 3 baltic countries have had their 100th anniversary this year, Latvia will be next.
FP edit: Wow first time here, gonna be a good day? If the legend holds true i am granted one wish, right? Plz send recipes.
europeanlurker
Palju õnne!
davebeastly
Happy Birthday neighbour. We are indeed next. I'm looking forward to it :)
Pifflewick
Went to Tallinn recently, it was absolutely wonderful. Happy Birthday!
BumblebeeCabbagepatch
Palju õnne meile!
cousteau
Was that photo taken in Estonia? Because if so, the flag accuracy is estonishing.
purplechemist
Hitchgaffa
As an Icelandair, I confirmed Estonia and was the first to do so.
Rapturr
Clever girl
TheSkyOpenwide
Isn't Kerli from there?
LukewarmSkywalker
she is
DickPicEnthusiast
At first I thought the image had glitched and failed to load.
VictorFries
Istu kyrväl our wee brother. Happy birthday!
Placentaur
Happy birthday Estonia, from a small American girl to you. And beautiful pic op
igda6
The greatest flag.
cogitoro
USA here. Had a long convo with a friend about which county has the best flag. Settled on Estonia. (ours is dogshit, btw)
cogitoro
There's a few things a flag needs to be good: simplicity, ease of reproduction, a striking impact, and a badass color scheme
cogitoro
Germany was right behind Estonia, but blue/black/white > black/red/yellow. France also has a very good one. USA is busy and asymmetrical.
baconandplagues
I was unaware there were so many Estonias. I thought there was only one.
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baconandplagues
Oh no I'm aware
tr3buchet
i will visit estonia! where should i go?
baconandplagues
I have no idea never been just know Russia fucked them up big when they shut down Estonia's internet
tr3buchet
they did what now?! that’s awful!
baconandplagues
It was ages ago https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_cyberattacks_on_Estonia
LinaPaukt
Happy birthday, Brothers and Sisters!
thejeff80
@op did you get any recipes?
69NAZ
I got 1 :)
FrankPerkele
Happy 100th from your friends up north! Hope you keep supplying us with cheap alcohol for years to come! And don't let Russia bully you!
Chubbyracoon
We do too! But if we fail you, we can always go to Latvia :D
ChubbyRaccoon
We will all go to Latvia.
Sombike
Actually there is a protest going on right now about our gas and alcohol taxes. Over 1k cars drowe to latvia today :)
PudgyPinkiePie
So is that all 1k cars?
gvara
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Seeing how things are going, I guess we all have go to Latvia for that now.
cynicbot
Considering their treatment of ethnic Russians i'm surprised their regime is getting away with so little bullying.
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What?! I don't know where you get that information, there were troubles decades ago, now everyone gets along well.
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At my workplace like half are ethnic Russians, we live the same lives, work together live side by side, we date and marry etc
macruz4
Hail, hail, Estonia, a land, I didn't make up!!!
YourVeryOwnBackupSanta
air came out of my nose at a faster rate than usual, thank you for that
funnyfly
Happy birthday from Sweden, your neighbours across the pond!
Gilgamech
Having the League of Nations (later UN) and modern technology have created a Modern Peace.
ImNoBorat
Palju õnne!
RainBowMorso
As an estonian I can confirm the flag comes from that
Sombike
I can also confirm Estonia ...
randomgamesest3000
Where exactly are you from.
LukewarmSkywalker
The blue really does represent the blue sky. When ever you feel like you are in danger or trouble, you can look up to the sky for solace
LukewarmSkywalker
the black one is also almost true, It is not so much of the trees or the forest, but the ground below. it is about land cultivation.
LukewarmSkywalker
The white is not snow, It is purity (so can be pure white snow). Also represents the white bark on birch trees!
Woodenpancake
Estonia can i confirm flag
usefullyuseless
As a confirm I can Estonian.
Chouilste
I tried Estoning once...
Itsreda
XethorWasAlreadyTaken
An an italian I can confirm it too
XethorWasAlreadyTaken
As*
happytreeleaf
As an Englishman, now American Citizen, I Too will confirm this.
ImAFoxButNotReally
Wait, what?
drewcrosby
Italian flag: Green for Caesar salad, white for the Alpine Mountains, red for pasta sauce.
XethorWasAlreadyTaken
Fun fact: ceasar salad is not an italian dish and nobody eats it here
tiduszecht
fuckthisshitwebsite
Green for the beautiful countryside, red for the proud legions, blue for loyalty during war
Martinikene
Well, as an estonian, I can say that it's not true.
RainBowMorso
Shut up don't break the illusion dammit
Martinikene
For making that statement I just got a text telling me I no longer have an estonian citizenship. Damn it, what have I done.
YourVeryOwnBackupSanta
ohhhh I get it now
Roki344
Estonia was part of the soviet union from 1940 to 1991, that doesn't seem like 100 years to me
cynicbot
They call it occupation in order to exclude an undesirable ethnic group from electoral process.
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That is complete bullshit, the favorite party of the Slavic minorities the (center party, actually left more) is in power right now even
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All minorities who lived in Estonia were encouraged to get Estonian citizenship, only thing not allowed was dual citizenship
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Also, any Russian who doesn't want to live here can go to Russia, but mostly they prefer living here, also a lot of immigration from Ukraine
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Also, the integration is going quite well by now, Russians etc in Estonia are pretty happy to live here, we had some issues in the past tho
SirDistic
I'd like to point out how RIDICULOUSLY attractive the women of Estonia are.
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Haha, good mix of genes from all sides + that (a bit weird) Russian influence of wearing a lot of makeup and fake tan and revealing clothes
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I always saw the flag in nature during winter. I think blue = sky, I heard the black symbolizes either the dirt of our land or our soul...
cynicbot
More like xenophobia.
Martinikene
Ding, ding, ding. We have a winner.
fierce1three
I bet there will be lots of kiiking going on
twowhat
??
Ransu
You're in for an education snippet! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiiking
twowhat
Oh, I’ve seen this! Thanks for the education
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Too cold for that right now :D
LUCKELEO
Wait what? I am fairly certain they got their independence after the soviet union colapsed and not after ww1. What 50 years of ocopation /1
LUCKELEO
dosn't count? Like it never happend? Alright. /2
shorr
They had working government throughout it all and the occupation was seen as illegal by other countries. Technicalities maybe, but from 1/2
shorr
what I've heard/seen of Estonians (neighbour country), they've always held their identity and system through it all and sought freedom
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Estonia was occupied, but Estonia still kind of existed as a part of Soviet Union, where we were forced into. The republic started in 1918
DontTellMeWhatToDoYouDontKnowMe
pretty much
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Estonia was still not the same thing as Russia, a bit in the same way that Estonia is still Estonia, even when it is in the EU
cynicbot
They call it occupation to have a basis for revoking citizenship rights from ethnicities who would inconveniently vote no on important stuff
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All "minorities" are welcome to vote how they want, and right now the "center" party is in power that is the favorite of slavic minorities
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Only thing is you can't get a dual citizenship, that was made so during the collapse of Soviet Union to be sure Estonia stayed independent
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What?! Most Russians and Ukrainians etc in Estonia have citizenship. And I have never heard of any citizenship being revoked in Estonia.
cynicbot
The only reason Estonia is currently in EU and NATO is because ethnic Russian population had their voting rights taken away in early 90s.
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What?!?? I have many friends who are ethnic Russian, I myself am like quarter Russian, everybody is encouraged to vote here lol
cynicbot
Unless you and your parents were stripped of voting rights and given apatrid documents for being Russian.
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9)but it has turned out fine so far. Russians in Estonia aren't anti-EU or Nato or any way politically too different from Estonians
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13) no matter if their ancestry is Russian on Ukrainian or Estonian. We get along fine and we have no big political views really
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5)nothing was "taken away" from anyone. I don't know where your information comes from. It doesn't make sense on any level.
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12) Actually the political situation right now has no issues about pro-Russia or pro-whatever else, the people of Estonia are pretty similar
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8) Also most ethnic Russians, like most ethnic Estonians didn't really care too much about NATO and EU either, Estonian feared EU kind of
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4)who were mostly people who had only been here for a short time, like few years and didn't qualify to get citizenship or chose not to.
cynicbot
That's not true, people being born and grow old in Estonia with apatrid documents being stateless.
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3)get Estonian citizenship and passport etc when USSR disappeared, nothing was ever taken away, some people just didn't get citizenship
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11) agree with ethnic Russians too actually, and the very young generation too actually, that's why they are in power right now.
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7) capital Tallinn's city council or whatever for example the ruling party has been the one that Russians and old Estonians prefer.
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6) Ethnic Russians in Estonia are fine and prefer to live here and not in Russia, we get along fine. As long as I can remember in our
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2) People don't get their voting rights taken away here and never based on ethnicity. Some people in the 90s who lived here didn't choose to
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10) Russians just tend to prefer more left-wing parties here, while some Estonians kind of don't like those bc communism, but old Estonians