>Oh, and as per a previous mail by someone that you had replied to with
a
>hotmail.com account (so this isn't at you directly, but I cannot find
the
>intermediate mail): Last I checked, Russians don't use dollars, they
use
>Rubles. I have a 1990 5 Ruble proof coin I purchased in East Berlin
while I
>was there in my collection. (25 years ago, most coins were cheaper than
>computers -- now it's the other way around!) So I was making a
statement
>about the pitiful (IMHO) status of the American dollar, just to clear
>things up.
Not to go too much off topic, but I made the russia comment, because I
was born in the USSR, and it is very apparent to me. They DO use rubles,
but before they artificially deflated it (with a clone case :), the
xchng rate was something like 5000 Rubles to a US Dollar. I was watching
a Russian comedy program a few days ago, and they mentioned that Russia
has more dollars than the US, discussing the aid US gives them :)
Actually, dollars are pretty much common there now, with slightly
greater value.
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Received on Mon Feb 23 1998 - 14:31:20 GMT