Last week in Poland, The Guardian reported that a man awoke from a coma sustained from head… Last week in Poland, The Guardian reported that a man awoke from a coma sustained from head injuries during the Soviet era. I wonder how his family explained to him all that happened while he was comatose – that Poland had led the way in democratization, that even Russia had become a free market democracy, that the Cold War was over and the United States and Russia were now friends