Not really, no.
While central Europe and the Balkans still clearly have Russia’s hooks in 'em, most of the population is firmly for the EU (i.e. the West). This couldn’t have happened if Russian soft power did not suffer horrendously at the split of the USSR.
Just take some ayahuasca.
This is so good that I got bothered that there was no source. I found a comic from over ten years ago, with the same theme, but more simpler graphics. It turned out Jake Likes Onions did an updated version of their original comic in 2019 and didn’t add their watermark for some reason.
Anyway, as you were.
And the needle was
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