19 years is a long time to be asleep... or awake for that matter.
From the Cable News Network:
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...Yeah we tease him a lot cause we’ve got him on the spot,
..."When I went into a coma there was only tea and vinegar in the shops, meat was rationed and huge petrol lines 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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2 comments:
We have rationing in the West too, only here, things are rationed on the basis of having the cash to pay for them.
When meat is subsidized by the government so that the price you pay is between one tenth and one twentieth of what the “market price” would be, then the lines and shortages don’t carry the same connotation, do they ?
But of course, right-wing media never bother to provide this background.
I love this one. Well done. Must be nice to sleep through all the bad times. I tried that once but work got in the way. lol
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