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The "hyperinflation episodes" graph is pretty misleading. That big clump in 1991 marks the collapse of the Soviet Union, and as much as he would have liked it, I don't think you can credit Nixon's withdrawal from Bretton Woods as the cause of the fall of the USSR.


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