It's a shame that the chart's not in front of you. I was making a comparison between what we call in the book the six “in-between” countries—Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan, those six states, or what the EU calls the “Eastern Partnership” countries—on the one hand, and on the other hand, the eight countries, including Poland, that joined the EU in 2004. The divergence in terms of reform, democracy, and quality of economic governance is extreme between these two groups. Poland is in a separate category in my analysis, because of its relative reform success in the post-Communist period.
What I meant by the “post-Soviet pathologies” that affect the six is that there's a similar pattern of governance failures, reform setbacks, and democratic deficits that is present throughout those six countries to varying degrees. In the chart, you'll see that it's not all uniform, but that there are a number of commonalities and common problems among those six countries. Your question is really about why they suffer from them.
A lot of it does have to do with the fact that they were fully integrated into the Soviet system for 75 years and emerged from it in much worse shape in terms of social capital and the potential for democratic transformation than a country such as Poland, but there is a range of reasons. The argument I was trying to make is that one of the reasons that these pathologies have continued in those six countries is that there is this stalemate between external actors, namely Russia and the west, in trying to compete for influence in these countries, and that neither Russia nor the west can prevail over the other, but the contest between them is feeding into these pre-existing pathologies and, in some cases, making them worse.