The brain drain from the USSR/Russia/Eastern Europe has been at full speed for a couple generations — thirty years. That is devastating. Together with the free flow of information on the internet, there is no resisting westernization. Good or bad(<-this one), the world is headed for a monocultural future.
Even Poland is starting to break, Warsaw is becoming as liberal as other European cities, you now see Gay Flags in a lot of places, that was not the case just a few years ago.