Kristen Ghodsee and Mitchell Orenstein of the School of Arts & Sciences wrote about vaccine skepticism in Eastern Europe, which they attribute to the social consequences of communism’s collapse, rather than to the legacy of communism itself.
https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/explaining-low-vaccination-rates-in-eastern-europe-by-kristen-ghodsee-and-mitchell-a-orenstein-2021-11 Project Syndicate