Camilla Pletuhina-Tonev

Dec 5, 2024 | newamerica.org | Ben Dalton |Candace Rondeaux |Camilla Pletuhina-Tonev

“Dollar, dollar, dollar, a dirty green paper!” sneered Vladimir Zhirinovsky, the notorious founder of Russia’s Liberal Democratic Party, as he set fire to a dollar bill in 1998. At the time, his theatrical protest against U.S. currency hegemony and predictions of the dollar’s eventual worthlessness seemed outlandish.