Cringe boomer tier analysis.

Socialism appeals to degenerates in the west because in the west, and especially the US, it has been seen as normal and traditional to be pro-capitalism and anti-socialism. So naturally people who want to be transgressive and reject social norms and boundaries are going to tend to embrace socialism as a way to own the traditionalists.

In Russia and Eastern Europe it is the opposite. Socialism was the established position for decades and the biggest degenerates usually support neoliberal capitalism as an antithesis of the rigid Stalinist regimes. Whereas groups like the Communist Party of the Russian Federation are very socially conservative.