"Проще превратить аквариум в уху, чем уху в аквариум""

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Help Wanted

By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

Published: December 17, 2011

THE historian Walter Russell Mead recently noted that after the 1990s revolution that collapsed the Soviet Union, Russians had a saying that seems particularly apt today: “It’s easier to turn an aquarium into fish soup than to turn fish soup into an aquarium.” 
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/18/opinion/sunday/friedman-help-wanted.html?_r=1&src=tp
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