The fact that you ask me as a historian in a way dictates my answer. Analogy is not possible here. I think that we are a special east European case. One should not forget that, at the beginning of the crisis of a system that was already historically worn out, we practically had a revolution whose effects we are still enduring. That leads to the question of a comparison with Germany, but that would be to compare two unlike things.
Nothing is the same in a small and in a big nation.
In a small nation, the dictatorship burns out everything, in a big nation something remains. Take the Russians in the 20th century. The Germans are a big nation and their case proves that a big nation can also make huge historical mistakes with far-reaching consequences in proportion to its size. That nation has paid a very high price, and it has faced the truth. The lesson to be learned is that the Germans have shown that they can gather enough energy for such a recovery that has made them a democratic and very prosperous European nation.