i recently purchased a silver USSR 1 rouble for $50, pretty comfy deal, and scrolling down on ebay i noticed the seller also was selling USSR banknotes in bulk from the same era.

224 x3 roubles for less than $20. The USSR wasn't a long time ago, a good bunch of 30yo boomers ITT were born before it collapsed, me included.
Yet, here we are, a single rouble in silver is worth approx. 4480x2.5= 11200 roubles in paper few decades after. But back then they were 1 = 1.

We are surrounded by examples like those, it's everywhere around us, but somehow normies don't ever doubt their government's authority (and ability to enforce fake valuation of their debt instruments), no matter how many times they get fucked in the ass.