Oddly enough it's not an accident they almost universally want to throw their lot in with the 'other side' Countski, believe me, you might too if the Russians had been running Transylvania in a very brutal fashion for the last 50 years.
Whoops the Russians were running Transylvania for the last 50 years, give or take the odd decade :)
Your analogy is somewhat inextact, think of it as more akin to the subsidized Banana purchases the UK used to make from the West Indies post Independence, before 'One World Willie' Clinton stepped in and got it banned that is.