place, which obviously was abandoned afterwards, so it s like a time capsule, right? you re there in the middle of this little fairground, a little soviet fairground, with a frozen ferris wheel and a bunch of frozen bumper cars. it s like this was the soviet union mid 1980s, and it s remained that way. and you really got this kind of strange premonition about which way the world was heading. but i couldn t even. i could not bring myself to believe it then. and now what are we? it s about a month since i was there. it really feels like russia is heading back to the soviet past. i mean, putin today has been talking about effectively nationalising the foreign businesses and their assets that are ceasing to work in russia. so i never thought i would use these two words next to each other in a sentence. he s talking about nationalising mcdonald s. i mean, this is mental.
a little soviet fairground, with a frozen ferris wheel and a bunch of frozen bumper cars. it s like this was the soviet union mid 1980s, and it s remained that way. and you really got this kind of strange premonition about which way the world was heading. but i couldn t even. i could not bring myself to believe it then. and now what are we? it s about a month since i was there. it really feels like russia is heading back to the soviet past. i mean, putin today has been talking about effectively nationalising the foreign businesses and their assets that are ceasing to work in russia. so i never thought i would use these two words next to each other in a sentence. he s talking about nationalising mcdonald s. i mean, this is mental. that is spooky on quite a lot of levels. gabriel, thank you so much, and thank you forjoining our podcasting family. i m so happy to be part of your family. what am i, a cousin or a brother? i d go brother. half brother?