Marketing and advertising were thought of as illegitimate cajoling, pushing consumers to make decisions that they would not have made otherwise. It could not supply the industrial sector with capital replenishment and the total absence of capital markets did not help. This is the benign case. But it seems that the worst is over and that the scene is fast changing. However sloppy or criminal the process of privatization, still hundreds of thousands of new capitalists were brewed and introduced, willy nilly, to the profit motive.
Industries are much more focussed and market oriented.
The new religion of capitalism, replete with entrepreneurship, free choice, personal profit and the invisible hand of the market has been successfully phased in. Both the domestic markets and international trade are recovering nicely. Consumption is growing and with it exports. The political level is withdrawing from the scene through more or less successful privatization or transformation schemes and appropriate legislation to minimize the role of the state in the economy. They educate their workforce and retrain it accordingly.