I volunteer for tribute! Like that kind of system?
Hard to tell - I actually read the interview, and it was unintelligible. More than half was him not admitting/avoiding anything about doping.
Sounds as though the system in Russia was to have coaches pick out kids at young age, and they trained them for their entire career - they basically ‘owned’ the athlete. In US, the ‘system’ is a more diffuse filtering process, where individual motivation (and funding) is what drives best talent to different levels and different coaching for the different levels.