I think it has more to do with the amount of extraneous capital they have to throw around than time, as most of the real surveillance state apparatus was built in the U.S. post 9/11, but the lack of continuous government in Russia probably didn't help them in that particular endeavor.
tl;dr: Russia is less shitty than America because they've only had a couple decades to build systems of mass suppression instead of hundreds of years
I think it has more to do with the amount of extraneous capital they have to throw around than time, as most of the real surveillance state apparatus was built in the U.S. post 9/11, but the lack of continuous government in Russia probably didn't help them in that particular endeavor.