We "treated" Russia to shock therapy in the 1990s.
Hyperinflation destroyed the savings of millions of Russians.
Life expectancy crashed.
The poverty rate exploded from single digits to 40% of the population.
A "joke" at that time claimed US capitalists killed more Russians in the 1990s than German capitalists did in the 1930s.
The Harvard Boys Do Russia
"Through the late summer and fall of 1991, as the Soviet state fell apart, Harvard Professor Jeffrey Sachs and other Western economists participated in meetings at a dacha outside Moscow where young, pro-Yeltsin reformers planned Russia’s economic and political future.
"Sachs teamed up with Yegor Gaidar, Yeltsin’s first architect of economic reform, to promote a plan of 'shock therapy' to swiftly eliminate most of the price controls and subsidies that had underpinned life for Soviet citizens for decades."