Let's eat potato peels By Abdul Turay Published in Postimees on 2 December 2008 At a meeting of foreigner investors recently held in Tallinn there was a consensus on one issue. Estonians hadn’t yet woken up to just how serious the current economic crisis is. People don’t seem to realise what is at stake. It is not just a question of a few bankruptcies, nor of shopping cheaply, nor buying a smaller car, nor having a few friends and relatives out of work. Just to shake people out of their complacency let’s give a hypothetical situation. Imagine if the Estonian economy was owned lock, stock and barrel by Russian banks, a world in which some dour, Putin yes-man, in Moscow decides how companies do business in Tallinn. A country where your home loan was already with a Russian bank and try as you may, you couldn’t switch it to an Estonian one. If you think that the above situation is just fantasy this is from 23 October edition of the Economist: “…one or more parent banks will put a troub