Soviet cartoon (1950) showing the ruble plane soaring high while the American dollar plane stalls and nosedives
Captioned 'Two courses', illustrated by V. Vasilev and published in Krokodil magazine
Text at the top right reads: '...The Soviet government recognized the need to raise the exchange rate of the ruble, and to calculate the exchange rate of the ruble not on the basis of the dollar, as was established in June 1937, but on a more stable gold basis...
...in accordance with the gold content of the ruble'.
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