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100 Roubles Lottery Bond, 1954
| Issuer | USSR Ministry of Finance |
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| Year | 1954 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse description | Red and blue intaglio on white paper with fine guilloche underprint border. The USSR State coat of arms is centrally placed at top in blue, with the denomination 100 in red at each corner. Large Cyrillic letterpress text states the bond title and value at centre; series and bond numbers appear in ruled panels at top and bottom. |
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| Obverse lettering | СССР ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫЙ ЗАЕМ РАЗВИТИЯ НАРОДНОГО ХОЗЯЙСТВА СССР (выпуск 1954 года) ОБЛИГАЦИЯ НА СУММУ СТО РУБЛЕЙ (Translation: USSR STATE LOAN FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NATIONAL ECONOMY OF THE USSR (1954 issue) BOND FOR THE SUM OF ONE HUNDRED ROUBLES) |
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This is not a banknote but a lottery bond — part of the mass state loan campaigns the Soviet government ran through the Stalin and early post-Stalin years to extract savings from the population under the guise of voluntary participation. Workers were strongly encouraged, through workplace pressure, to subscribe at rates sometimes reaching a week's wages. The bonds paid no guaranteed interest; instead, prizes were distributed through periodic draws, and the principal was redeemable only after twenty years, by which point inflation had substantially eroded its real value.
The 1954 issue came the year after Stalin's death, though the loan mechanics remained unchanged from the coercive apparatus he had built. Khrushchev eventually suspended all outstanding state loan obligations in 1957, effectively defaulting on the entire series.