Except for Ukraine (East Slavic, formerly part of the Soviet power structures), Belarus (also East Slavic, also formerly part of the Soviet power structures) and Moldova, (who doesn't know what they want to do...) everyone else turned West ASAP.

How come:

Estonia (ex-USSR)

Lithuania (ex-USSR)

Latvia (ex-USSR)

Poland

Hungary

Romania

Bulgaria

Czechia

Slovakia

didn't also have rigged election results? Well, most likely because their people wouldn't allow them. The popular consensus was that turning West was the only option and even populists and wannabe dictators didn't dare go against the people.

My opinions are crude and ghastly and I'm a jerk. But I'm also right.