I'm sure that is how it was intended, same for the sentence:

Ukraine has suffered from corruption, particularly in its armed forces, since the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

But the way I read it and I think the way those of us who actually know about what went down after the dissolution of the USSR, people who know what capitalism is, read it as "immediately after capitalists took control, corruption inevitably became rampant." In other words, the truth of the matter.