Kinda-
These are culturally instilled hatreds that have less to do with true risks (probabilities and magnitude based on empirical measures).
The Palestinian kid is also raised to hate Israel and Jews... Same thing.
While there always is a historic reason for that hatred, it does not necessarily truthfully define the world in the present day. It’s what we would call a “prejudice.”
***Bottom line: you cannot live in a vacuum of culture and history (of course the past affects us today), but things also change and you should not let history dictate the future thereby creating a self fulfilling prophesy, or maligning resources.
Is Russia a threat? Yes.
Is Russia the greatest threat we face? No.
***But to corroborate what you said. Our own military and intel service which is still very much in step with the Russian threat (many of the folks at the top were raised in that era), will quickly and easily default to what is easy and familiar to them.
HOWEVER, because of the economic interests, political and media influence, we will not see the threat with the PRC even as it breathes down our neck. Our own policy makers will downplay and ignore.
Pure rambling fantasy and self-illusion.
You live in a world of fiction and some rambling romantic past rather than today’s reality in regard to Russia.