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| How ordinary people helped fight the famine of 1921-1922 |
| 2023-08-30 |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. Commentary by from (c) Grigory Tsidenkov his V Kontakte post By January 1, 1922, a total of 23,438,164,985 Soviet rubles had been received into the accounts of the Narkomfin and the Pomgol Central Committee from private donations from the poor at that time, Soviet citizens in favor of the starving. That is, these are direct coppers and paper rubles that people voluntarily threw into donation boxes or transferred to help the hungry. This does not include voluntary-compulsory deductions from the salaries of co-workers and so on. It's just donations. If translated into understandable money, then this is approximately (very approximately) - 370,000 US dollars of that time. Most of all gave: Muscovites - 5,212,740,018 rubles (81.5 thousand dollars); Samarans - 1,922,219,000 rubles ($30,000); Kievans - 1,680,638,792 rubles (26 thousand dollars); Petrograders - 1,403,752,243 rubles (22 thousand dollars); tsaritsyns - 1,261,414,691 rubles (20 thousand dollars). The smallest amount was collected in the Votsky Territory - 7,000,000 rubles (slightly more than a hundred dollars). It is very rude to count as follows: in the autumn-winter of 1921, from 28,000 to 39,000 Soviet paper rubles were given for one gold ruble. In autumn, on average, it cost 32,000 rubles. 2 gold rubles is plus or minus 1 US dollar. What was clearer about the prices, then, as I have repeatedly cited here for clarity, $ 1,000 then is the full monthly maintenance of an orphanage for 50-70 children with staff in the Volga region. https://vk.com/id6186050 - zinc (c) Grigory Tsidenkov |
| Posted by:badanov |