Donald Morard In 1965, the French Communist journal Démocratie Nouvelle,  in its special issue on the “young, advanced republic” of Estonia, described the occupied Baltic country as a “laboratory” for the future of the Soviet economy. In an article titled “Un Domaine d’experimentation Economique” (“A space for economic experimentation”), Estonia was presented as an ideal space for the Soviet government to test new forms and methods of economic management to later be scaled up