(Story) How I Escaped Communism for a Better Life

[Phanuthier]

http://progeneric.com/blog/

A pretty cool story a dad of a friend of mine's posted, for anyone interested... short 2-3 minute read.

Preview:

I constantly dreamed of coming to America, but leaving Romania during communism was extremely difficult. My opportunity finally came in June 1989 when I was sent to Poland for work, and the train I took went through Hungary. Although Hungary was also communist, it wasn’t nearly as strict as Romania, and I had a better chance of crossing the border from Hungary to Austria. The train didn’t have a scheduled stop until the Czechoslovakian border, so I jumped off of the train at the first opportunity when it slowed at a crossing outside of Budapest.

[Coach]

Cool story. Thanks or sharing!

[Regulator75]

We should have a cool story (bro) thread.

[Dion]

Guy had alot of courage to do such a thing. Hopefully he shares more of his story or even writes a book about it.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Dion

Guy had alot of courage to do such a thing. Hopefully he shares more of his story or even writes a book about it.

I was actually surprised how easy it sounded. To be clear, the physical part, no fence climbing, dog avoiding. The mental part would be extremely difficult. I also wonder if he is discounting how physically difficult it was, but not sure why he would do that.