Tory: I share your opinion 100%. Those countries were not ready but I believe they were accepted only so western companies would go there very easily because of cheap labor and thus destroying jobs in the west.
No, it was to stop them going back to Communism. We couldn't believ it was over, one of the most oppressiv and ruthless and aggressively expansionist ideologies in History and they just gave up, no way wer they going back!