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Well... certainly not none of the pain and misery of capitalism, as they'd still be engaged with the capitalist economies of elsewhere and still very subject to exploitation from richer countries. The peoples within the country would've almost certainly been on a slightly more even playing field, though. For better or worse... exploitation CAN stamp on most everyone.
Fair enough, my wording implied the reforms of Deng Xiaoping were painless and not without their drawbacks. Certainly, some pain and misery would have come, but not nearly to the extent that the dissolution of the Soviet system entirely has wrought upon Eastern Europe and its connected trading partners in Cuba, Vietnam, Laos, the DPRK, etc.