That's a very good lesson to learn from this. Add to it the lesson from the Cyprus banking system and people should understand very clearly the benefits of having some alternative stores of value, and also some alternative liquid assets.
endlessmountain just did a video on silver priced in the Russian Ruble: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDq7f9iVuLw
Thanks for sharing markc. That's a very good video from about 1 minute 28 seconds into the video which explains how silver is a hedge.