The old say goes something like “A frog in a pot of water that is steadily getting warmer”. But in the case of Jan Gzrebska, if he were a frog, the water would have gotten cooler.
Real damn cool. Real damn quick.
A 65-year-old railwayman who fell into a coma following 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.”
But ask any good leftist, and they’ll tell you that Reagan was an ass. Go ahead, find one and ask. I’ll wait.
Lee at Right Thinking believes this is might be “the coolest story he’s ever heard.”
I know it ranks right up in my Top 10. Oddly enough, right there with a couple others from the end of the Soviet Era.