Good afternoon my friends. Historians know that Lenin, who lived in exile in Switzerland, had a modest bank account there.
Komsomolskaya Pravda journalist Ivan Tarenko managed to find traces of Lenin’s legacy with the help of a Swiss friend (he is a banker and very interested in history) in the cantonal bank Bankofstrasse in Zurich. Until now, there is an account number 611361, owned by Vladimir Ulyanov. It turns out that Lenin kept 5 Swiss francs in it.
Tarenko contacted the bank to find out what interest rates had accumulated over the years. The employee asked him if he was a relative or a confidant of Mr. Ulyanov?
Upon learning that the journalist had nothing to do with Lenin, he politely explained that outsiders were not allowed to obtain information about client accounts.
However, with the help of experts from the Swiss banking system, it was possible to roughly estimate how much money could be withdrawn from Lenin’s account at the moment.
If we proceed from the average 1% per annum adopted at the beginning of the last century and the capitalization of interest income, then (adjusted for inflation) it turns out that Lenin’s heirs can only count on … 12.98 Swiss francs! Enough for a couple of Zurich beers. But it will definitely not be possible to start a new revolution with such money.
These are the echoes of history coming to new generations. And, perhaps, in another thousand years, someone will ask exactly the same question. And just as disappointed in the response received.
