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My guess is that in Eastern Europe because private business was rare and was an exception and somewhat counterrevolutionary it was seen as part of them of their estate. In the West people who see business as part of the problem of wealth disparity see business as anathema to their promiseland where the community is everything and private enterprise is a vestige of capitalism so it has to go down for participating.

Except that’s only the view of radicals and the normal people protesting and not protesting see a problem in that since they do not believe the whole system is bad, but rather needs some reform.

In more concise terms in the East they were fighting to get capitalism, in the West some fight to defeat capitalism.