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[ was led to believe the ruble was worth more than 85? and that, although we could not take rubles out of Russia, we could buy raw furs, jewels and things like that and take them out. Well. I find the ruble is worth about 3? and that even if we...
Under Soviet law the ruble is a coin with an "official gold value" for which nobody can get gold. Big difference today between the Roosevelt dollar and the Stalin ruble-a vast difference-lies in the fact that the Dictator rigidly sets the price of rubles for foreigners, whereas the...
*In Moscow last week the State bread stores' price to people with cards was 48 kopeks per kilo of black bread, one ruble for white. At this price Great Aristocrats (manual workers and Soviet officials) could buy 800 grams of bread per day, Small Aristocrats (white collar and professional folk...
* Gold ruble: STC gold.
In the 1,700 Torgsin stores in Soviet Russia, preferred trade is in foreign currency, preferably gold and silver, which Russia badly needs to buy goods abroad. But a foreigner may turn in his money at a Soviet bank or at Torgsin and get paper rubles and a booklet showing...