No matter when you want to write this text and for what reason. Formally, it is appropriate to do this about once a year and a half. Approximately with such frequency in the current Russian society flash talk about the exchange of money, monetary reform or denomination. But it is appropriate to write (let alone publish) completely at any time. Moreover, for most readers it won’t matter that it will be written on the merits, and they are absolutely right. Even a single “rational” a text written in Russian language on the theme of “monetary reform” was not read as the author intended.The function of such texts is to give food to the imagination in the topics that any citizen of Russia accurately and intuitively selects from the totality of possible information topics, continue to be the subject as exploring the hidden possibilities of his own mind, and a special kind of social communication, which probably makes us a nation.Therefore, the circumstances of time and place does not matter. What with the fact that last week no matter what the analyst (and the analyst do) no matter what investment companies (may Bank) somewhere (I think in the newspaper, but not sure) wrote something about all of this. Let’s say that it was not July 11, 2020, and March 27, 2019 or even that have to happen on 3 may 2022. And this person wrote on this fence not even a “denomination” and “devaluation” or, on the contrary, “the constellation of banknotes”. And even if it is not in the form of suggestions, who do not understand, and in view of the allegations of a secret knowledge that some further authorities will do with some money. I see you are already interested.“Kommersant” learned how changed early to dengekitai of dalea actually want to offer you my explanation of why you are interested. It’s not a very conventional mechanism. Anyway, I think the nature of this curiosity is completely different than normal and rational human concern for their own future.It would seem, what could be more rational than with particular concern in Russia’s attitude to the use by anyone of the phrase “currency reform”? It was enough only in the XX century three: old money through the efforts of the state ceased to be worth anything still in the memory of our parents!Actually no, it was a confiscatory reform of 1947 and 1991, but not the 1961. The collapse of the monetary system during the revolution and Civil war of 1917-1921 years was much larger. But people’s memory is almost not affected. Like the confiscation of Bank savings in 1918 (I have had to bring in a stupor companion simple statement that in Russia before 1917 there was Bank accounts for individuals and their cities enjoyed not only millionaires).Took place much closer to our times, in the years 1990-1994, according to my observations, also remained in the collective memory in such a distorted form that a meaningful conversation about it almost impossible. For example, try to find a memory in response to a very simple, seemingly, the question is: when and under what circumstances disappeared from circulation banknotes of the Soviet “Lenin”? It happened in early 1992? At the end of 1993? Forbade anyone to use them? Exchanged “the old Soviet money” to “new Russian”?Meanwhile, the currency reform in the second half of 1993 not that were in its properties to exactly the same confiscation as the reform of 1947 and 1991. Yes, and was arranged almost the same.But how many even of eyewitnesses of these events were then shared with the children his hatred of the head of Bank of Russia Victor Gerashchenko, who was the demiurge and that half-forgotten reforms and hyperinflation of 1992-1994 (which technically was the evil sorcery that destroyed “the Soviet savings”)? Usually this curse Yegor Gaidar, and Anatoly Chubais. The last seems just.The question of who stole it, in fact, quite complicated. Anyway, I have not had to deal satisfactorily with the logical popular version of the financial disasters of recent centuries. In General, people’s attitude to the monetary system of Russia and outside of almost a century of Soviet power somewhat romanticized.For example, every educated person knows that the ruble in the mid-nineteenth century were different in terms of silver and Bank notes (let’s leave aside the question of what the bill, I assure you, that confuse you — consider it just a synonym for bills). And someone even remembers textbook semetko, which in the twentieth century (mostly, of course, interetnica) sometimes called dvuhkopeechnaya coin. What 2 pennies to silver before the reform Kankrin in the 1840s was 7 kopecks in banknotes, it is still possible to imagine. But can we imagine a peasant, easily and without loss to itself, transforms the course of paper money into silver when buying horses in the city?I thought even a city dweller in Moscow in the late XIX century, when they learned that proimperial, on which is written “5 rubles”,— it’s actually 7.5 a silver ruble, and the only form of money that were taken in ordinary transactions to the amount from 3 to 25 roubles, without the consent of the other party, was a silver ruble, which, we note, in almost was not, because the silver in them was much more than a silver in detail (5, 10, 25 cents — 50% silver 1 rouble — 90%), and the price of the metal they were more expensive than they are written. They were withdrawn from circulation by the merchants, who are able to obtain the real price in transactions with China.If you do not have to spend several hours ptry to make for themselves a satisfactory scheme of exchange relations in the XIX century paper, gold, silver and copper money, their evolution and applicability of these relations to different types of household deals: buy five pounds of wheat, a cow, a house, pay taxes, rent a house, or inherit it. I assure you, you will not be bored.And the difficulty for Russia is the rule rather than the exception (and not only for Russia — in many respects the described phenomenon is international). In all other cases, a state somehow played with the nationals in coins in a variety of ways and as a state, at least were not losing. Since the Copper riot (1662 summer) popular uprisings against another “currency reform” is not observed.Photo: RIA of Novostyam no less there is every reason to believe that our shared special relationship with the monetary system, manifested in particular in a morbid excitement in any changes to the format, is not so much psychological legacy of “Pavlov’s confiscated” the spring of 1991, put it on long and firmly forgotten reform in 1947, but the special reflection in the collective memory of the entire history of monetary relations between the state and society. And more broadly, society and economy. Here is pointless and even harmful for the individual rationality and rational approach.Economic knowledge even in the imperfect form, which they have now, for a very long time will be the property of a very narrow circle of people with special knowledge and education. In addition, the independence of Central banks in the twentieth century, few people writes— this is largely a world (not too successful) attempt of the States to overcome that part of economic instability, which inevitably generated by the permanent intentions of the state to ensure the prosperity of the subjects of the next innovations in the sphere of monetary circulation. Often only the Central Bank understand the consequences very clever idea, another government official with respect to money. However, it doesn’t always work.It’s not from a lack of knowledge. Exactly the same way they connect and academics. From this, I am sure, are not free and the leaders of the Bank of Russia. In this area of consciousness in addition to the “monetary reform” (this is a purely conventional name; the denomination, harmless destruction of banknotes with some numbers generated by the inflation of zeros, in this logic is equally dangerous) concepts such as “war” and “military conscription”, “jail / court / repression”, “hospital / medical manipulation”, “natural disaster”, “death / burial”, “the hunger”.So you’re right, when not applied to a randomly appearing signals of “monetary reform”, whether having value or not having, the usual logic. Texts that are devoted to these events in��the DHD will have the same logic as folklore. Be read in them are not so much figures, how many vague and incorrect characters: “this said, he’s bald, bald more faith and here I say some non-Russian word, it can’t be good, and here smile, this is strange.”Photo: RIA Novostiukraine these more productive than someone who objectively is something that can be understood in the current political or economic situation, and with those who have a larger “domestic” authority, who would occupy in traditional society, higher and more secure place in the social hierarchy. The emotions you get in these discussions, you need not in order to save yourself from the insidious plans of Russia Elvira Nabiullina (they are not, but it totally does not matter), and in order to feel part of the community, able to protect themselves from adversity.In the same row and “the collapse of the dollar”, and “the prohibition of gold,” and “vaccination”, and “digital codes” and creative development of xenophobia, and more. It’s a nasty part of the collective psychological archaism. From the unbridled exploitation of these mechanisms of power we are saved only by the fact that she is openly afraid of the huge and unpredictable force that resides in these layers of consciousness.If you have experimented with this, then very carefully: the cult of Victory — most territory, there is (still very cautious) games around the repressive criminal policy and biopolitics, which is also in this area. But in General, this is the place where to experiment I’m afraid in which to go, when everything else is not working.I will only remind that the notorious putsch in a desperate situation included in its programme an element of the same scale mythological construction — the promise to give every family the infield. In the summer of 1991 to try to exploit the pre-revolutionary passion “lordly piece of land” — it would seem funny? But, as pointed out by Joseph Brodsky, “mysticism is a sign of failure”. Witchcraft (and in the understanding of national monetary reform is an act of dark sorcery) is resorted to only when all scientific means have been exhausted.Although economic manipulations always formally rational, that is not the case, and that thinking about it scared the invasion of these areas citizen. And the work he or academic personality has been equally unpredictable.Finally, information on monetary reform you absolutely do not need. If I tell you that it will not, you do not believe? So don’t believe it. Yes, even if it is, remember, you’re not so worried.
