The average Russkie, who was one step away from the poor house before the Invasion, is now not only poor, but Dead Broke. Their life savings have been ripped from them; the Ruble worthless. However, those who knew the risk of holding Rubles held gold or even Crypto in offshore accounts. They were the cognoscenti.
Those who were employed by the LUXE Boutiques have now resorted to selling their once pride possessions for pennies on the dollar. Barter trade is in. Street vendors are proliferating. Dollars are now the Russian Gold. Street market rates are as high 200 Rubles for a Greenback – .005 cents a Ruble. Not even Barney Rubble had it so bad.
