Soviet Union

From The Vault

The Soviet Union or Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) did not collapse in the twentieth century in the Fallout universe and still existed in the late twenty-first century, prior to the Great War in 2077.

The Soviet Union had a consular service and a foreign service, and had strong consular relations with the United States. In fact, it is very likely the Soviet Union was not at war against the US in 2077 ^[1]. However it is unknown whether during the Great War the Soviet Union was an ally of China, its former enemy, or was neutral towards it, and it is unknown whether it still had its sphere of influence in Europe.

It is likely that Soviet-American relations were good enough in 2077 that American citizens and Soviet citizens were able to visit each other's countries, as a Soviet consulate in Los Angeles ( the one Natalia's grandfather worked at) was designed to cater to the needs of the citizens of its mother country visiting or working in the United States.

The name of the nation confirmed its continued existence beyond the year 1991 when the Soviet Union collapsed in our own universe, so it still likely had some kind of Communist or socialist system of government in the twenty-first century divided up among several constituent republics.

The Soviet Union is not mentioned at all in other parts of the Fallout universe's backstory, especially in material concerning the Great War.  However, though the Soviet Union did not collapse in 1991 in the Fallout world as it did in our own reality, neither did it seem to still present the same danger to the interests of the United States by the late twenty-first century. Instead, the Communist power that was Washington's primary rival for world influence by the year 2077 was the People's Republic of China. As such, the Soviet empire in Eastern Europe may also have collapsed or voluntarily been relinquished by Moscow long before the Resource Wars began. While the Soviet Union may still have existed under a Communist government in 2077, it probably was no longer a government that intended or was capable of threatening the United States and its democratic allies, perhaps because China represented a common enemy.

[edit] Appearances

• The Soviet Union is mentioned in the biography of Natalia, one of the pre-made characters in Fallout, whose grandfather was a Soviet diplomat at the USSR's Los Angeles consulate.
• In Fallout 3, the Museum of Technology states that the Soviet Union, along with China, constantly refuted the American claim that they put the first man into space in 1961.

	The following is based on Fallout Tactics and some details might contradict canon.

• The AK47, a Soviet-made assault rifle, is a common weapon in Fallout Tactics.
• The wreckage of the Soviet space station Mir appears as an easter egg in a special encounter.

[edit] Notes

• In Wasteland, the game which influenced the Fallout series, the US waged a nuclear war against the Soviet Union and China.

[edit] References

1. ↑ a diplomat from the Soviet Consulate in Los Angeles was able to secure a place in Vault 13 and Natalia, one of the Fallout 1 pre-made characters, was the diplomat's grandchild