Estonia (Greater Cold War)

Estonia, officially known as the Republic of Estonia (Estonian: Eesti Vabariik), is a sovereign state located within the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by the Soviet Union to the east, Latvia to the south, and the to the north. For much of its history, Estonia was under the control of various European empires from the Danish to the German, Swedish and Russian Imperial rule until it managed to become an independent state in 1917 following the collapse of the Tsar's regime and the Russian Empire as a whole. Estonia remained independent until 1940 after the Soviet Union invaded and occupied all of the Baltic States during and annexed them into the country and established Soviet republics in their place.

In 1941, the Baltic states were invaded and occupied by during its invasion of the Soviet Union that same year codenamed. During the war, 34,000 Estonians were drafted into the Red Army, but only 30% of them ever survived the war. Estonia and the other Baltic countries remained under German occupation until 1944 after they were liberated by the Red Army in the Baltic Offensive. After the war's end in 1945, the Estonian Soviet Socialist Republic was re-establsihed and remained that way until the nation acquired its independence once again in 1992 after it signed and ratified the Moscow Sovereignty Accords and was given full permission to secede from the USSR and become an independent state.

Since 1992, Estonia has formed a democratic parliamentary system of government and is a developed country with high rankings in the Human Development Index and posses an advanced high-income economy which is one of the fastest growing in the entire European Union. Estonia has formed close relations with the other Baltic States and other former communist nations as well and has been heavily active in maintaining the sovereignty accords with its handling of the Soviet Union, which has been accused of being hostile towards former Soviet republics in recent years.