Until everyone dies out... The state is not going to repay debts on Soviet deposits

Sergey Baimukhametov

Today the rate of the Soviet (!) Ruble to the dollar is 53.33 kopecks.

The state again postponed the refund of money actually taken from the Russians 30 years ago. But at the same time it found the guilty...

If the bill was called "Take a bite!", Or "Keep your pocket wider!", It would certainly attract the attention of compatriots. And who will follow the discussion of the document entitled "On Amendments to Article 1 of the Federal Law" On the Suspension of the Operation of the Federal Law "On the Basic Cost of the Necessary Social Set"?

In fact, he is very important for Russians. Because it provides for compensation for Soviet deposits in Sberbank, "burned out" as a result of political and economic cataclysms in the USSR, the RSFSR, the Russian Federation. In 1995, the State Duma adopted a law "On the restoration and protection of savings of citizens of the Russian Federation" placed in Sberbank as of June 20, 1991. For its technical implementation in 1999, a special document was developed on this very basic cost of the necessary social set, in order to calculate on its basis how much money we will receive in new rubles in a new, democratic Russia.

We will not go into details and numbers now. It is important that since 2002, its execution has been "suspended" by laws under boring names, which the deputies stamped every year until 2008. And then gamuz - until 2012. In 2012 - to 2016. In 2016 - immediately for 5 years, until January 1 of this year.

It was the turn of the newly elected State Duma. She also didn’t trivialize, and on October 26 “suspended” the payment of compensation to “dear Russians” until 2025.

The government explanatory note says that if the law was adopted, it would have to pay, taking into account interest, in 2022 - 49.7 trillion, in 2023 - already 51.8, in 2024 - 53.9 trillion rubles. It goes without saying that this is too much for the state budget.

True, during the current discussion, the deputy from the Communist Party faction Mikhail Matveev, under the applause of like-minded people, said:

"A state, especially one as powerful as ours, always has the opportunity to repay debts to its citizens!"

And then he added:

“The well-being of people who now possess super-wealth was created precisely due to the fact that they received the entire Soviet legacy in private hands. Now, after such a long time, there comes an opportunity, at least gradually, little by little, to give back to citizens what they owe them ... Otherwise, people's trust in stability, in social justice, about which so much is said in the Duma, will be undermined. We will never overcome poverty if we do not start now to help those people who loaned their Soviet savings to the current regime, the current state, the Russian Federation".

He was supported by his fellow party deputy Alexei Kurinny:

“We have 60 trillion in reserves. The recognized debt, even recalculated in the nominal part, is 50 trillion rubles ... Nobody is proposing today to take urgently these 50 trillion and distribute it to our citizens. This is a very difficult and lengthy process, but the problem must be resolved ... As a result, we freeze again, support the position of the government, which is clearly inclined to forget these debts in order to introduce some kind of bill and immediately cancel the obligations ... We are categorically against so that these debts were forgotten!"

State Duma Chairman Viacheslav Volodin, as best he could, defended the state from accusations and found the guilty:

“The issue that we are considering today has a moral side and, when discussing it, we must take this into account. Because when we talk about debts, we all understand very well that these are debts that emerged as a result of the collapse of our country. These are debts made by those leaders who betrayed their people ... And to this day these debts exist for this very reason... Now you remember Yeltsin, well, memory is beginning to recover after the covid. Besides Yeltsin, there was Gorbachev..."

But for some deputies this was not enough. Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Sergei Neverov was indignant: “Deputy Matveyev, it seems to me, made a very incorrect expression, calling the authorities a“ regime ”from the rostrum. I would ask for a comment".

And Volodin made a remark: "If there was a regime, you would not be in this hall".

He’s right about something. What is the "mode" here ?! 30 years since they robbed the entire population of the country, 26 years since they promised to return the loot - and silence, calmness. Since 2002, the majority of the electorate have voted for practically the same deputies, representing the same political force. For those who regularly "suspend" the law on compensation. Hence, not a "regime", but the complete consent of the masses.

And not only the broad masses, but also the so-called experts. Every now and then there are arguments that: "It is also unclear at what rate to recalculate them, taking into account both the hyperinflation of 1992 and the denomination of 1998".

The funny thing is, the answer to this "expert" question has long and constantly been given ... by the Central Bank of the Russian Federation. Every year he sets the exchange rate of the US dollar against the Soviet (!) Ruble.

As of October 1, 2021, it was 53.33 kopecks.

Anyone can calculate how much is owed to him today.

PS The authorities are cynically waiting for not only the holders of deposits from the times of the RSFR to die out, but also their children - direct heirs? And the grandchildren and great-grandchildren will no longer even know ... And the state will thus appropriate 315.3 billion Soviet rubles - 600 billion dollars at the current rate of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation.