Except for Croatia and to an extent Serbia many countries from the ex warsaw pact or ussr have had a huge decline in thier overall football in countries like Poland , Romania ,Hungary etc.
And this not as if these nations have been bad in football or anything and there are many examples of them having successfull campaigns like
Poland reaching 3rd place on the 1974 and 82 world cups
Bulgaria finishing 4th in 1994 with a player like Hristko stoichkov
Romania also during the hagi years were a round of 16 team in world cups years.
And I think I don't even need to speak about Hungary in 50s .
And it's also intresting if you consider that gegen pressing kind of has orgin in soviet union/Ukraine specifically due to Valeriy Lobanovskyi.
What is the situation of football there like . Is it changing for the better and worse or is it just staying like it. And what led to Croatia and to an extent Serbia not going trough such a decline.