"If a man has been hurt by being run over by an automobile, it is no remedy to let the car go back over him in the opposition direction."
But the real motivation for the rapid privatisation was not economic growth or stability. Indeed, the article states this:
"Its aim was to guarantee a swift transition to capitalism, before Soviet sympathisers could seize back the reins of power."
In other words, the goal of rapid privatization was to prevent, at any cost, the return of Communism. Was that a good idea, from an economic point of view? Probably not. But an ideology that, several times, nearly plunged the world into a nuclear war, and was responsible for the deaths of over a hundred million people, between the gulags, famines, and the Great Leap Forward, might have generated a bit of fear among the Western countries, who wanted to get rid of Communism as quickly as possible. Similarly, emancipating the slaves destroyed the economy of the South for two decades -- but it was worth it.