At least it isn't Marvel or Harry Potter.

I get what they're going for, but environmentalist themes were very common when Thief 2 came out. This was only a few years after Final Fantasy 7. The WMG page has this possible shitpost.

Sure, why not?
As a big Thief fan this REALLY ruffles my almonds. If you said Karras was harsher in hindsight because VP Harris' name also started with a K it would make just as much sense.
What? 
A tree-hugging Commie triggered these people? What happened to defying stereotypes and setting a good example?
Captain Planet was made by Ted Turner - pretty much a commie himself. To quote the old high priest of Jabootu.
Now let's return to Linka and the pro-Communist thing. As noted, Wheeler is introduced as an occupant of a horrific slum. Linka, however, is first shown to us in a pristine primordial forest. Said surroundings, laughably (and appallingly) enough, are obviously meant to represent the Soviet Union in the same way the wasteland is meant to represent America.
This is jaw-dropping stuff. The Soviet Union, as dictatorships tend to, had a much more dire environmental record than any of the Western democratic states. That’s cheating the country of its true distinction, however. In point of fact, the USSR had what is categorically the worst environmental record of any nation in human history.
For example: Here in the U.S. we’re currently debating whether it's safe to store radioactive waste under a mountain, in a facility the government has already spent 20 billion dollars on. Although ‘debate’ is too lofty a term for it. Many of the people against it, and I’m including almost all of the organized opposition, frankly don’t care whether it’s safe or not. They’re just against anything that might cause the public to become comfortable with nuclear power.
During its time, meanwhile, the Soviet government disposed of nuclear and toxic wastes by sticking them in steel drums and burying same beneath a couple feet of earth. The idea that environmental depravations are linked almost solely to Western consumerism is, to say the least, simplistic. Insane would be a more accurate assessment. Still, such notions drive a certain, politically-dominant kind of ‘environmentalism,’ and that sort is exactly what’s on display here.
By the way, after the downfall of the Soviet Union, Linka was instead identified as being from "Eastern Europe." I could practically hear the grinding teeth of the cartoon’s producers when they had to make the change, and the thought always made me laugh.