The Balkans is a transeastwest area, both influences are present, especially in former Yugoslav countries and even Yugoslavia itself was made up of western and oriental(ottoman) countries. I associate the most recent western Eastern Europe split with the iron curtain, with Yugoslavia being outside it, but equally influenced by both sides.

We literally consumed and appreciated both cultures equally, watched Tom and Jerry alongside Nu pogodi. Not to mention other art like literature, movies, music(although in popular genres it was mostly western), etc.