Taavet Hinrikus - I was in my early 20s when E...

I was in my early 20s when Estonia joined the E.U. For a kid who'd grown up in the Soviet Union, it seemed like my country had come of age. For a country that had been isolated and cut off from the rest of the world, it seemed like we were becoming part of the global community. It opened a whole new world of possibility.

Taavet Hinrikus

Estonian

Born: 1981

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