'The people who had longed for a “normal” Western economy faced callous, bewildering transitions. They became the subjects of imported neoliberal experiments, often driven by wild-eyed Hayekian or Friedmanite fanatics like the ones I met in Warsaw as communism foundered in 1989'

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2023/12/21/becoming-european-homelands-timothy-garton-ash/