>>Did you read a book "The Black Obelisk" by Erich Maria Remarque? It was described there...
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>No, I didn't. My grandmother and my mother commented some about the situation in Germany. My grandmother was a baby, though, at the end of WW I.
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>>BTW, in Russia and former USSR republics there was a similar situation few years ago. I got my salary in millions rubles...
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>I heard that Bolivia beat an absolute record (for non-war inflation), but I am not sure. (At the end of the inflation period, a loaf of bread would cost several hundreds of thousands Pesos.)
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>By the way, did Russia create something like a "New Ruble", to replace the old one?
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>Hilmar.

Yes, I believe so, but it was after I left this country. I haven't checked the current course, but I believe it's about $1 ~ 25 rubles.