Reversal of fortune

HOW confused Stalin and Roosevelt would be if they returned to see how their successors were getting on, to see if they had made the best of the opportunities given to them.

Reversal of fortune
Wed, 24 Sep, 2008 - 01:00
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All the banks in Russia privatised and all the banks in America nationalised.

How could we ever explain it to them?

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