The title is ‘post-soviet state’. The article doesn’t liken the US to soviet era Russia, but rather to 90s era. > The intentional institutional ineptitude and

The title is ‘post-soviet state’. The article doesn’t liken the US to soviet era Russia, but rather to 90s era. > The intentional institutional ineptitude and callous nihilism of contemporary Russian society is the product of a seventy-year Soviet totalitarian experiment—or so I have long believed. No such experiment took place in the United States. So how is it that the pandemic has made the U.S. resemble the post-Soviet Russian state?