Eastern Europe and Latin America are both exploited for resources, cheap immigrant labour (and cheap labour in these countries too sometimes), while being patronized for being 'less democratic', and at the same time the West strangles any liberation movements there and promotes the most reactionary forces available. In fact, this economic and political relationships lead to them being pretty similar in socio-political structure.

The difference is that Eastern Europe is much more gusanoified since 1990s.