Blogger Maxim Worldv In his LiveJournal, the famous myth that the dollar was worth 67 kopecks in the USSR. He said that in reality the US currency was sold at the course of eight or ten Soviet rubles.
The world recalled that in the Soviet Union, dollars were quite a bit, and those that were mainly used to acquire imported products. The monopoly on the implementation of foreign exchange operations in the country possessed statebank and Vneshtorgbank of the USSR. Nevertheless, at that time there was an underground market with a “real market course”, determined only by supply and demand, writes a blogger.
“One dollar in the 1960s and 1980s cost about eight-ten Soviet rubles. Caught” Currency “with the amount up to $ 25 threatened time from three to eight years, and if the amount was more, then the deadlines were more, Up to the death penalty – for such an extent punishment in 1961, the currency rokotov, Fiebishenko and Yakovleva sentenced, “the blog says.
It is at a price of the price from eight to ten rubles “Currency” bought dollars from foreigners near hotels, and then resold with a small percentage. Therefore, the average salary, which in the USSR amounted to 140-150 rubles, after the country collapsed and with the arrival of a market economy in almost one week turned into 15-20 dollars in real currency calculation, which is equally equivalent to the real rate, former in the 60-80 “Underground”, noted the world.
“In a closed structure, any currency courses can be drawn, but as soon as the system becomes part of the global economy and goes to the real demand and supply market – then the reality immediately makes adjustments over all fantasies,” the blogger summed up.
previously analysts predicted changes in the ruble rate until the end of the year. Financiers stated that the COVID-19 pandemic will affect the ruble rate. Due to the slowdown in the global economy against the background of possible lockers, the currency exchange rate of developing countries may fall.