I was just answering that comment bout the historical language. No need to get so touchy.
The population spoke Finno-Ugric dialects which are now standardised under the name Estonian. They didn't speak a Slavic tongue and their culture is different enough. Languages also make out political spheres and they're also a link to a people's culture. That's why people don't just deem it as just a mere mode of communication. I cannot literally translate when speaking a foreign language.
Besides, the fact that English is widespread is a result of imperialism and also some kind of nationalism of it own. It became standardised before they decided to spread it, just like every language that attains this specific level (administrative, media and common language). So is the standardisation of Russian (based on the Moscow dialect and leveled all Eastern Slavic dialects in Russia during the Soviet era thanks to the media, which is a good thing I might add).
Why should English and Russian be allowed to become standardized and Estonian not? Why should this make Estonians have accepted Russian unquestioningly without being forced upon them against their will? If German linguists didn't standardize it, why says Estonian wouldn't standardize their language themselves?
In my country I also could just as well have switched to French. It seems that the descendants of the Frenchified (formerly dialect-speaking) population has a different culture than the still Dutch-speaking population does. How curious is that? All in less than hundred years for most of these assimilated people when talking about the lower class. Despite this Dutch is standardised officially since the 18th century after the example of the success of L'Académie française with the French language. Very still, some unofficial Standard Dutch started developing in the late Middle Ages, but it really started to attain a body since the 16th century (they also looked up a lot from the Germans, who on their turn took a lot from Latin; the Romans also took a lot from the Greeks, by the way!).
Standard languages are indeed somehow a bit artificial, but very still embodiments of a mentality, a culture, a history, etc... This is why we don't just replace our language by French, German or English, not even nowadays. Nobody knows how important English would remain anyway.
By the way, did you know that Spanish wast standardised officially one century before French was? Nowadays French has more prestige, but that doesn't mean that François Villon wrote in patois! He also wrote in Standard French, but an unofficial variant.
