

No. The USSR wasn’t just a federation. It was a entirely different economic model and mode of production. Putin has no interest in getting rid of capitalism. I’m not arguing that the USSR was a workers paradise. But it was something novel that did not exist anywhere else and cannot simply be restored by taking the territory of neighbouring states and subjugating their people.














Mother Yen, at the end of King near the Botany View was still our fave place to eat. Everything else was too expensive or too fancy for us (or too wheat based which my partner has to avoid). I’m not a huge fan of the paddo vibes that have opened up on King and Enmore Roads in recent years.