Saturday - June 02, 2007

Just a Reminder, Good Things Do Happen

This story is just a reminder, that in a few short years, Soviet Communism disintegrated.   A whole generation has grown up not knowing the totalitarian heel of the Soviet Union.  The plight of Pole who just awoke from a 19 year coma should be a reminder that freedoms are hard won and bring great rewards, but also, they are easily lost.

A 65-year-old railwayman who fell into a coma following in an accident in communist Poland regained consciousness 19 years later to find democracy and a market economy, Polish media reported on Saturday.

"When I went into a coma there was only tea and vinegar in the shops, meat was rationed and huge petrol queues were everywhere," Grzebski told TVN24, describing his recollections of the communist system's economic collapse.

"Now I see people on the streets with cell phones and there are so many goods in the shops it makes my head spin."

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