Conrad Stargard, 20th-century Polish engineer, stumbles through a time portal that was accidentally left open by those meddlers in the Historical Corps, and finds himself in 13th-century Poland, whereupon he does any Connecticut Yankee proud.
“This country and this century are in horrible shape because of the lack of socialism!”

“You are absolutely right, Sir Conrad! What is socialism?”

Variants

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  1. Conrad Stargard’s Adventures by Leo Frankowski (February 1986).
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . written by Leo Frankowski