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this is the funniest thing I've read about the bolshevik revolution, the entire economic mismanagement that took hold from 1917 until 1923(with some help of WW1) is mindbogglingly stupid

>During the civil war the regime had collected no taxes, funding itself by confiscating grain and other goods and printing paper money. Confusion enveloped the country’s monetary base. The populace still used nikolaevki (rubles under Nicholas II), dumskie (rubles associated with the Duma period), and kerenki (rubles under Kerensky and the Provisional Government), which the Soviet regime itself printed for a time without the crown on the double-headed eagle, as well as foreign currency, which circulated illegally and at ever steeper exchange rates.The Whites in territories they controlled had accepted Soviet-printed kerenki, but not Soviet rubles (sovznaki) on which the Whites stamped β€œmoney for idiots.”The resulting runaway inflation made vodka a major means of exchange and store of value, as barter took over the economy. Things were not as bad as Weimar Germany’s hyperinflation, where the Mark went from 60 to $1 in 1921 to 4.2 trillion to $1 two years later, but a top tsarist-era economist estimated that between 1914 and 1923 the ruble depreciated by 50 million times.
>Some Bolshevik fanatics asserted that the hyperinflation constituted a form of class war, and one called the printing presses the β€œmachine-gun of the finance commissariat.” Ideologues also asserted that the β€œend of money” marked an advance in the stages of civilization, toward Communism.
@loop @gladicouldnthelp I am just waiting for tha apple cult to lose their heads a little longer then I will have an original Macintosh Portable to sell them, mint condition with an external floppy drive, zipper case, manuals... Gonna wait til they hit about 5 granf to sell it.
@terryenglish yeah i really like her and feel bad for her, she's a harmless autist like a mouse in a maze
Ultrabook is the ultimate form factor. Change my mind.
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