The lack of large scale Eastern Europe colonization of the world, the avoidance of slave trade, and avoidance of foreign slave labor utilization is a clue as to

The lack of large scale Eastern Europe colonization of the world, the avoidance of slave trade, and avoidance of foreign slave labor utilization is a clue as to why there was a developmental difference. Moral superiority is not rewarded in the short term but it will be in the long term. There is a reason the largest economies in the Eastern and Southern world are more responsive to Russia's needs as the western world is clamping down today. Their historical reputation as a moral outlier is being rewarded.