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NATO was formed in 1949, already after 2nd world war. Russia has been hated for way longer, so much so that countries neighboring it saw "allying"* with nazis preferable over having Russia take over them
*some didn't have much option, allying or being taken over with much more violence
The Red Scare is a more like side goal because communism threatens oligarchies. The Soviet Union also had its hand in persecuting communists.
Tsar was gone by something like the purges in 30s