When ussr collapsed there were periods of complete anarchy such as working for the railroad that the ussr guaranteed workers pay and pension. Suddenly it was on the states to decide how to handle that. Someone’s lively hood was ripped from underneath them and they had to continue working for nothing if they even had a job to go back to.

That seems very similar to people today who have an eviction looming over their head in a few weeks and no job to go back to.

Another example is 1932 America during depression times. Hardship is all around us, step off social media for a minute..

Miles long breadlines, widespread homelessness, mass deaths from disease and despair, an indifferent, ravenous oligarch class, enough money spent to solve all these problems on pointless war in literally the exact same place where the USSR conducted a pointless war that bankrupted them...