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"Now the chickens are coming home to roost all over these eastern states as one after another they swing towards civil unrest and fascism."

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The eastern European states that have joined NATO are all democracies, a prerequisite of NATO and the EU.

A couple of them have seen regrettable shifts to the right - Poland, Hungary, Turkey.

So far none have embraced totalitarianism, though Turkey is teetering.

Compare the democracy and human rights records of the former Soviet republics that have joined NATO, to those that have not.

Almost to a nation, the NATO members are functioning democracies, while those former Soviet republics that stayed out of NATO, and within the Russian sphere of influence, are dictatorships or authoritarian states with high levels of corruption.

Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, all have appalling human rights records, little or no democracy and, coincidentally I'm sure, are not NATO members but are in Russia's orbit.