From the Authornon:
I'm attempting to make this historically accurate anyway. I'd like to thank my cousin (who is also doing a History Major :D) for answering all my random questions with a straight face.

And thanks for the prompt OP, I thought I was the only one to ship these two :3

Also, for the purposes of this Fic I've made the Soviet union a person, rather than the house Russia and everyone lived in. Russia just happens to The Soviet Union's favourite, or his 'right hand man'.

This is VERY unbeta'd, so sorry for gramatical errorz….

FUCK YEAH! HISTORICAL REFERENCES FTW!
Anyway, this fic is starting in 1974, a year before the end of the Vietnam war (Where South Vietnam was fighting with communist North Vietnam). South Vietnam was supported by Anti-communist America, but the war was won by North Vietnam, leaving America with a bit of a grudge.

Between 1970 and 1980 the tension between America and the Soviet Union eased a little due to the Warsaw Pact and NATO. Because of this, the other western countries eased off a little as well.

On 5 August 1974, in a controversial decision which saw Australia break ranks with other Western countries, the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs announced that Australia had recognised Soviet sovereignty over Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.

During Whitlam's visit to the USSR, two agreements were signed between the two countries on 15 January 1975: the Agreement on scientific-technical cooperation between the USSR and Australia and the Agreement on cultural cooperation between the USSR and Australia.

However, in the 1975 election (which Whitlam lost), the new government under Malcom Fraiser dismissed The Union's sovereignty over the Baltic states in December of that year, claiming them to be independent nations in their own right.

Unfortunately, tension between the US and The Union rose again after the start of the Soviet war in Afghanistan, which ran from 1979-1989. The Soviet War in Afghanistan was a ten-year conflict involving the Soviet Union, supporting the Marxist government of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan at their own request against the Islamist Mujahideen Resistance. The war was won by the Mujahideen, the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan collapsing in 1992 (Three years after the withdrawal of the Soviet Union from Afghanistan).

The Soviet Union finally collapsed in 1991 (signalling the end of the Cold War), right after the Baltic states declared their independence. The first of the three to declare independence was Lithuania on the 11th of March, 1990. Estonia and Latvia followed suite, declaring independence on the 20th and 21st of August, 1991. The Baltic States' struggle for independence is believed to have contributed greatly to the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Australia was among the first countries to re-recognise Estonia's independence on 27 August 1991. Both countries re-established diplomatic relations on 21 November 1991. Even though it also recognised the re-established independence of the other two Baltic states, Australia has no tangible relations with either Latvia or Lithuania in present times.

Russia was recognised as the successor state of the Soviet Union, essentially taking up the Union's seat as a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council.

Thought it's unknown when Russia was officially recognised, Australia identified Russia as the successor of the Soviet Union on the 26th of December 1991.
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