I would like to note that regarding the inevitability of this aggression by the United States and its satellites, I had to repeatedly contact the authorized bodies with specific proposals to neutralize the expected economic sanctions. Here is an example of my appeal to the monetary authorities in 2016. If the leadership of the Central Bank had listened to this fully, then we would today be invulnerable to the sanctions just introduced. Unfortunately, the measures I proposed were taken only in relation to the payment and settlement infrastructure: a system for transmitting financial messages from the Bank of Russia was created, the MIR payment system was introduced, and payments through foreign payment systems within Russia were looped. Thanks to this, the Russian payment and settlement system is invulnerable to sanctions. But who will be responsible for the continued, despite obvious political risks, placement of our foreign exchange reserves in dollars, euros and pounds, which were arrested by the enemy? I have explained many times to the leadership of the Central Bank the need to switch from these instruments to gold. They did the opposite – they continued to buy up the obligations of NATO countries, actually lending to their military, including expenses, and export gold from the country. To the damage of 40 trillion rubles of GDP underproduced as a result of the policy pursued by the management of the Bank of Russia, 300 billion dollars were added. losses from the seizure of reserves by its Western partners. After increasing the key interest rate, which greatly increased the negative impact of sanctions, there is a conviction that the leadership of the Central Bank is actually playing along with the enemy. What would the USSR do with the leadership of the State Bank if, on the eve of the war, it transferred foreign exchange reserves to the accounts of the Reichsbank and, after the invasion of Nazi Germany, stopped lending to investments?
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