#146 - Izabella Kaminska - The Soviet Collapse of Britain
The Peter McCormack Show
Peter McCormack
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2026
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Summary
Is Britain in the midst of a Soviet style collapse?
In this episode, I speak to journalist Isabella Kaminski about why today's Britain is starting to resemble the final years of the Soviet system. She describes what collapse feels like before it's obvious: fake economics, hollowed-out institutions, collapsing trust, and a population slowly realising that the systems meant to protect them no longer function.
We also discuss how inflation, debt, housing policy, bureaucratic expansion, and political incentives work, and why many voters now feel elections don't change direction, only the speed at which things deteriorate.
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TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00 – Collapse Parallels 00:05:09 – Poland's Divergence 00:13:08 – Parallel Realities 00:20:07 – Middle Class Liquidation 00:25:00 – Fake Economies 00:32:11 – Safetyism Trap 00:39:14 – Power Above Politics 00:53:03 – Inflation Life Squeeze 01:12:34 – Industrial Realignment 01:32:51 – Signs of Collapse
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| 0:00.0 | You said something that terrified me that looking at the state of the UK, we are starting to resemble a Soviet-style collapse. |
| 0:10.0 | I mean, it certainly feels like it. I mean, I was only a young girl when it all happened in Poland and the Soviet Union, but I remember the ambiance and the sort of atmosphere of that era. |
| 0:25.0 | And it was so similar to now. You know, it was literally like a paradigm shift overnight. |
| 0:30.6 | You know, before you knew it, the economy was falling apart. You could see, you know, bread queues and, |
| 0:36.6 | you know, nothing in the shops. |
| 0:38.3 | Nothing was working. |
| 0:39.7 | You would have thought that with people with half a brain would look at everything decaying and getting worse here. |
| 0:46.0 | And then would look at Poland and see how everything's getting better and their economies growing and their health service works. |
| 0:51.4 | And go, what are they doing right? |
| 0:53.4 | And what are we getting wrong? |
| 0:54.6 | But this is how it happened in communism. It was like, suddenly, it was as if you were left |
| 1:01.2 | with nothing. There was no structure. There was no institutions. You couldn't trust anything. |
| 1:07.2 | And they have to kind of realize, geez, everything we believed is just wrong. |
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| 1:38.6 | Hi, Isabella. |
| 1:39.6 | Hello. |
| 1:40.7 | We were exchanging texts last week, and you said something that terrified me that looking at the state of the UK, we are starting to resemble a Soviet-style collapse. |
| 1:54.9 | Yeah, I think so. |
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