The Republic of Lithuania is a nation-state in what was once western Lithuania, and claims itself the heir to the Lithuanian Republic that was unjustly seized by the Soviet Union during World War II. Lithuania is located in the Baltics and is part of the Baltic Alliance and is an observer state of the Nordic Union as of June 10th, 2011.
September 26th, 1983. Vilnius, Lithuanian SSR.
It was almost three of the morning in the Lithuanian capital. Audra Kutsunis, who was the earthling who represented the Lithuanian SSR, was sleeping, when a call woke her from her sleep. She answered the call despite being late, which was from Arisha. They were able to talk thanks to a special line -was done by the Vertushka system, which connected each SSR home thanks to a paralel network to the official one-
Arisha was nervous, and asked her to flee: reports told that nuclear missiles would hit the country.
Knowing that was going to be true, as she had experience dealing with Arisha, Audra tried to flee to the western rural areas of the SSR, as fast as she could. The EMP and blast irradiated almost all of the Lithuanian districts.
The major cities of Jonava, Kaunas, Kėdainiai, Šiauliai, Klaipėda, and Vilnius were all victims to the nuclear onslaught that was Doomsday. The industrial city of Kaunas and the costal city of Klaipėda were obliterated altogether in a strike on the headquarters of the local air force and a strike on the naval facilities and ports. respectively. Meanwhile, all of Šiauliai was destroyed in EMP missile strikes on the air base and the somewhat neighboring Plokštinė missile base, near the Platelai Lake.
Having lost contact with the Soviet Union, with a large civilian casualty as result of direct explosions, and a mounting death toll due to severe injury and/or nuclear exposure, the months that followed the events of Doomsday consisted of mass violence, looting, civilian unrest, and large demonstrations against the somewhat functioning government, which was continuing to stick to subtle Soviet ideals, despite the USSR's sudden disappearance and lack of contact. Among the surviving population, attempts at recovery and reformation were being sought out, accompanied by surviving local government officials and military personnel. As demonstrations and campaigns went on into the summer months, the government relented and established the relatively small town of Telšiai as an at-the-time temporary capital and refugee center, which would become a move that proved fundamental in the journey to independence, as well as becoming an advancement that would be praised by world leaders in later years. Over the course of a few weeks, it was declared that Telšiai would prove to be a suitable permanent capital, with the termination of the capital city of Vilnius months back.
April 26th, 1984. Telšiai, Lithuanian SSR.
The town, being the capital and main refugee center of Western Lithuania, was the best place to stay as part of the surviving LTKP (Lietuvos Tarybų komunistų partija). Unrest and violence were supressed with the few resources, while nationalism began to rise as the SSR was unable to control the areas that had claimed. Audra Kutsunis was living there, and knew how both her people and the goverment were unable of survive, but hoped that it would get solved. After months of rationing foods, and giving refugees the task to help in crops and avoid the winter, riots stopped.
Only some districts and apylinkė were under direct control of the remnant authorities of the Lithuanian SSR, but those would be reclaimed soon... all of them ruled from theTelšių rajono
With a newly-decided capital and a still relatively strong military compared to struggling neighbor nations, Lithuania took on the task of formally announcing independence from the USSR on May 15, 1984, and establishing contact with the emerging Baltic nation known as the Republic of Courland which Lithuania recognized quite early on as a successor to the illegally occupied Latvian Republic, leading to well-nurtured bonds between the two Baltic nations, along with the signing of the Ventspils Treaty, a treaty which established the Baltic Alliance, an alliance which was modelled off of the Baltic Entente of 1934 and ensured a strong union against possible threats which included post-Soviet Union states. Following the Alliance's founding, the two nations began efforts to set up contact with other Northern European states, which proved successful once contact with the Republic of Latgalia was made through telegraph and radio communications by the Republic of Courland in the fall of 1984, despite sour relations between the two nations. Once more, in the mid-1980s, contact was initiated with several Nordic countries which included Finland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Iceland, and subsequently, the fellow Baltic nation of Estonia, which had only declared independence from the USSR in August of 1985.
August 12th, 1985. Telšiai, Lithuanian SSR/Republic of Lithuania
Audra had felt tired of being too far from the surviving goverment of the USSR, and being inspired of the independence of Courland, along the promise of help of Sweden and Finland, the country proclaimed her independence in August 12, 1985, 65 years and a month since the Soviet–Lithuanian Peace Treaty recognised Lithuania's borders and independence...
From the city of Telšiai, the new country would try to expand, reaching the eastern borders of Šiauliai rajonas and parts of the Kaunas rajonas (some apylinkės) by 2020-2023
Would the future be bright for Audra?
She would meet Estonia and Latvia years later, and join the Nordic Union in 2011...
In 1988, the Republic of Latgalia faced a major economic crisis dubbed the Latgalian Panic of 1988 as a result of an unstable economy, a lack of organization stemming all the way back to the immediate aftermath of Doomsday, and the remaining Soviet presence. The economic situation resulted in the Republic of Latgalia seeking closer relations with their Lithuanian counterpart, to which the Lithuanian President at the time, Vytautas Sakalauskas, initiated trade talks with the crippling nation though it proved to do little to quell the crisis in Latgalia. With the impoverished population of Latgalia having lost their ideal way of life over the years, there began a swell of ethnically Lithuanian and Russian emigrants from Latgalia who immigrated into the far well-off Lithuanian state and the neighboring Courland. As a result of the aid provided to Latgalia, the western portion of what had been the Latvian Republic and the following Latvian SSR, by the Lithuanian government, relations with Courland were briefly strained but rapidly recovered by late December of 1988.
With contact reinstated between the Nordic states, talks of a union began in 1989, which was the stepping stone that led to the signing of the Treaty of Trondheim on September 6, 1990. Initially, the Republic of Lithuania had little to no inclination to join the relatively new as a member state, preferring to strengthen the union of Baltic nations that was the Baltic Alliance, though, Lithuania kept close relations if ever a strong threat presented itself or relief would be needed in some form. Over time, however, as threats began to present themselves and their relationships with Courland, Latgalia, and Estonia strengthened further, Lithuania grew more favorable toward the prospect of joining the Nordic Union. Eventually, over two decades following the Union's establishment, Lithuania, alongside Courland, began negotiations to become observer states of the Nordic Union rather than full members, which was agreed upon by the Nordic Union on June 10, 2011.
June 10, 2011. Nordic Union HQ of Stockholm, Wenner-Gren Center, Stockholm, Sweden.
The reunion was in the Pylon, part of the Wenner-Gren Center building that hosted the Swedish offices of the Baltic Union (and rented by the Wenner-Gren Foundation) President Valdus Adamkus, and Audra Kutsunis were in the hall of the HQ, located at the 14 floor. Along them, the representatives of Courland were present too. Audra looked to the Courland-Latvian person who recognised her, trying to avoid being the pre-Doomsday Latvian SSR, as was suffering from two other nations who claimed being their sucessor.
After a while, Nordic Union Secretary Jan-Erik Enestam made the presidents and earthlings to enter the main room, where they signed the treaty to join the Nordic Union.
Audra and Courland were happy that Lekso wasn't there, as he would had forced to give more lands to himself and Finland...
And just after a while, the Baltic States were now under the Nordic Union...
Lithuania, Courland and North Germany spend the rest of the day visiting Stockholm with Jorgen, the Swedish earthling.
Vardan tos, Lietuvos Vienybė težydi!
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