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Fallout 1 and 2 had only vaguely anti-communism stuff (stuff from the old world), the start of fallout 1 with a cutscene of US troops killing journalists/guerrilla fighters in Canada (In Fallout Tactics theres a joke about leftist guerrilla infighting in Canada over naming their organization). Bizarrely the Soviets and Americans were close enough in the Fallout universe that some russians still lived in America before the war.
The implication was always that the Sino-Soviet split caused the USA to choose the USSR over China. The Soviet Union in black isle's fallout was more like "successful" revisionist post-glasnost state that diminish in its power - which Bethesda kinda forgot and given how fallout 4 was written when the whole crimea thing was popping off, the USSR became a useful enemy to use again.