“The simplest way to exterminate the very spirit of capitalism is to flood the

country with bank notes of high face value without financial guarantees of any

sort…This simple process must, like all measures of Bolchevism, be applied all

over the world in order to render it effective. Fortunately, the frantic financial

debauch in which all Governments have indulged during the war has paved the

way everywhere for its application.”

- Lenin April 1919