No, they were stable regardless of electorate or authoritarianism until western intervention (some exceptions which otherwise had to fall though).
Middleast to US was like a toy to child who has broken and opened it but fails to fix it now, and their population is now dying for western sins.
And non white aren't even humans for western world. So, we aren't going to see any coverage of their sufferings like Ukraine, even if they weren't at fault.
Freedoms, economic development and social disciplining (cultural engineering of population done of by USSR and Japan) are different requirements of a society.
Off course, economic system within western world was always better than that of Soviet one (and although East Germany was far better in education and civility if not money) and both parts of Germany were integrated in west and USSR.
Western system and marshall plan is for west only though, not Ukraine which was built by Soviet empire over decades.