But the USSR did give up Eastern Europe without a fight.
Yes, smartypants, they did, because the KPSS(CPSU) brought the country to its death bed.
And then the USSR died, because it wasn't a viable structure, economically, politically or militarily. It starved itself to its death, in short, and no one but the Soviet leadership is responsible for this.
Does this make you sad? Go complain to Vova, to Yosif, to Nikita, to Lyonya, Yura, Kostya and Misha about it, not to us. They are the people who created an empire that could not even maintain itself, not "the West".
Gorbachev gave the West everything beyond it's wildest dreams.
Misha didn't "give" anyone anything except that great last present he made to the russians - the only thing that would save the former Soviet Union from a bloody and destructive civil war - the freedom of choice to remain or depart to all its former member states.
Note, this was a choice guaranteed by the very Soviet constitution.
Compare this to putin, who by his stupidity and lack of vision has lead your country into a situation where that bloody civil war that will destroy you is inevitable and a matter of time. Quite possibly it will be the first civil war that will employ tactical nukes.
Yet the West never embraced Russia
Why would anyone embrace that festering shithole? All the states that left the former Soviet union and reformed were embraced. Maybe the ruzzkie should have followed suit instead of sliding into a failed state under Yeltzin and his "family" and then a full dictatorship under putin and the "Lake" cooperative? Maybe your failures are a fault of your own, and not that of the West, eh?
continued to treat them as an enemy and sought to further diminish them
It would be nice to see some evidence of this bullshit. To the contrary of your claims, the West was largely supportive of the ruzzkie pederation of putin, it supported your mother and father through the crisis created by your corrupt government, it traded with you, invested in your economy and until 2013 even ignored all border conflicts that you started and all war crimes you committed there - Transnistria, Abkhazia, North Osetia, the Ikcheriya wars, the invasion of Georgia.
This only made you, terrorist scum, bolder and crazier.
In short, geopolitics as usual.
In short, you're full of shit.