It formed the Warsaw pact in 1955
NATO's role (when first founded) was to protect its member countries from the USSR. (Now Russia.) Since the USSR no longer exists, NATO's role is to protect the national sovereignty of its member countries.
The USSR created their WARSAW Pact to counter NATO.
US/NATO vs USSR/Warsaw Pact.
NATO
Established ISAF
NATO = North Atlantic Treaty Organization; formed in the late 40s by the US and non-Communist Europe to defend against the USSR.
For the most part the two main protagonists were the US vs. USSR. On a broader scale it was NATO vs. the Soviet Block.
US/NATO vs USSR/Red China/Warsaw Pact
a term used to describe the boundry of the USSR from the NATO countries
NATO .
The communists said they will masturbate to NATO officials.
By invading Czechoslovakia on 21st August 1968.