A maybe-not-that curious observation on vaccination (though more interested in the federalism issue) with a question for historians on Eastern Europe. Let's start with some data from Germany (thread)
As Germany crossed the point of 60% of the population vaccinated once, let's look at the significant differences amongst German Länder 
The first 8 Länder - all from former West Germany. The lowest 4 from East Germany (Germany has 16 Länder). West Germany ranges from 57.9% (Bavaria, shame on you) to 69% (Bremen). East Germany from 50.9% (Sachsen) to 58.5% (M-V) if you do not count Berlin at 59.1%.
So East Germany has significantly lower rates than West Germany, despite vaccines being distributed largely along the lines of population size. Let's look at the EU, shall we?
Here it is, with US, UK and EU as comparators
And here too, even though distribution was roughly along the lines of population, you see that former communist countries fared poorly (with Hungary an outlier). So my question is: what (if anything) explains this? What was the history of vaccination in communist countries?
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