I seem to recall the Soviet Union designing the premiere assault rifle and then manufacturing and licensing them by the millions .

Perhaps you might think they're doing their best to control world population.

As for hewing down woods or polluting the land, I already mentioned the Three Gorges dam. I withheld mentioning the service to the world provided by the former USSR in preserving nature in the Ukraine by rendering it radioactive .

I don't have written documentation but I personally remember when a Soviet Russian delegation of their oil development commissars, visiting the oilfields in Alaska, asked the local pipeline executives what percentage of oil was leaked out of the trans-Alaska pipeline. They were told 'zero'. They flatly did not believe it. Obviously back in the oilfields of north Russia and Siberia, there was a constant level of tolerable pollution going on unchecked.

The story is an old one, and has not changed. If there are controls on executive power, and they are in place, standards can be maintaine. When power is not subject to oversight or regulations, then responsibility goes by the boards. The name of the system is irrelevant.

But, historically, the Communist and Fascist systems have in common that authority has been essentially limitless. That is why when the authority is coherent, things get down in a hurry if not very well, and when the authority is heedless, things go to hell in a hurry.

As an example, when the human tragedy of Venezuela gets comprehended, it will turn out to be an environmental disaster as well.