Those are the words of Jan Grzebski of Poland. In 1988 he was injured while working on a train. He fell into a coma and developed brain cancer.
He just woke up after 19 years:
“He was so amazed to see the colorful streets, the goods,” she said. “He says the world is prettier now” than it was 19 years ago, when Poland was still under communist rule.
“I could not talk or do anything, now it’s much better,” Jan Grzebski , 65, told in TVN24 Television in a weak but clear voice, lying in bed at his home in the northern city of Dzialdowo.
“I wake up at 7 a.m. and I watch TV,” he said, smiling slightly.
Wojciech Pstragowski, a rehabilitation specialist, said Grzebski was shocked at the changes in Poland — especially its stores: “He remembered shelves filled with mustard and vinegar only” under communism. Poland shed communism in 1989 and has developed democracy and a market economy.
Stories like this always get me. To have suffered through so much and to awake and find the world better – I can’t imagine how happy he must have been. I wish everyone, especially on the left could see what he sees, just for a minute at least.
