After more than two decades of transition, formal reform cycles (of a capitalist nature?), transplantation of policies unanimously declared à la Washington Consensus, European and Atlantic accessions, here we are, back to our origins, meaning back to the socialist industry that fed, apparently not a long time ago, economic nationalisms and patriotic egos. “The epic” of Oltchim, recently presented live on most channels, is the cruel illustration of a symptomatic and, in its economic essence, unfinished transition.