There are many things that are not either capitalism or Russia.

This line from your article really stood out to me: "It was typical to use natural resources extensively without considering the effects on the environment."

Because, per the article, the environmental disasters under "Socialist Russia" seem to match many of the ones in "Capitalist America". The thing in common between the two seems to be rich oligarchs controlling government, and leveraging their power to extract profits, with little regard given to the proles or the environment.

Crazy how much the supposedly "pro-capitalist" right wing mirrors the supposedly "Socialist Russia" sometimes.

Yes yes socialism also made mistakes so capitalism must be better!!

The so-called socialist economies were just the extreme form of monopolistic capitalism.

As a child, I experienced the reality of "socialism", where every word used by the ruling elites meant something very different from what it was claimed to mean.

Unfortunately, already for more than a quarter of century USA and most "capitalistic" countries every year become more and more alike to the former socialist countries, from all points of view, like great wealth inequality, markets dominated by quasi-monopolies, non-existent political opposition, mass surveillance of the population, confusing propaganda in all mass-media, less and less chances to afford to truly be the owner of many kinds of things, like houses, cars or computers. If your car or your computer or your smartphone or your TV set do whatever their vendor or the government want, instead of doing what you want, then obviously you are not their owner.