In less time than it takes for a new baby to reach U.S. voting age, the nation of Estonia has transformed itself from a cold, gray, stagnant outpost of the Soviet Empire to one of the world’s most impressive dynamic democracies. Its banks are pristine, its one of the most wired countries in the world, it is famous for its absence of corruption, as well as its flat tax, its sound stable money, its property rights, its free trade (unilaterally done with no miserable CAFTA battle, as Alvaro Vargas Llosa noted.) The only shortage out there for Estonia is enough praise for this marvelous nation that is lighting a flame for the rest of the world.

It’s even more incredible when you realize what Estonia used to be: I studied the Soviet Empire during the darkest recesses of the Cold War and in mulling each of the 15 miserable republics, the scholarly word on Estonia was that it was literally dead as a nation. Its ethnicity was being wiped out. The Soviet Union had totally absorbed it. There would be no Estonians. It had no future. I vividly remember.

Today, Estonia is one of the most revolutionary nations anywhere on earth, the one little nation that truthfully can tell every other nation longing for its freedom that nothing is hopeless. Estonia can even offer advice by its example: Use your strengths. Pick yourself up. Get out there and surpass the superpowers. Just do it.

Estonia did it. Read Pejman Youselfzadeh’s lovely item in praise of Estonia on RedState here.

Hat tip: GOPinion.com