Ceausescu's dictatorship killed thousands of children in orphanages. Post-communist samsars made fortunes by selling souls abroad under the authority of the authorities.
In the first days after the fall of communism and then for years in a row, the local but especially the international press made shocking reports about children in Romania suffering from AIDS, about children in orphanages and about the so-called "street children". All of them had in common Ceausescu's camps populated with the souls of the innocent. According to UNICEF, 700 orphanages housed about 100,000 children. The foreign press published hundreds of reports from orphanages in which 60% of children abandoned in maternity hospitals and hospitalized in these ghettos, with very serious disabilities, died after two or three years. Malnutrition and poor health care, lack of drugs or the interest of doctors were the main causes of childhood morbidity. Those who escaped until they became adults and were thrown into the streets from those establishments were left with lifelong sequelae. Some of them managed to find a job and integrate socially, but most were expelled or discriminated against by society, as is still the case today to a large extent with any minority: ethnic, religious, sexual and more. . Others, on the periphery of society, became criminals, victims of the demographic policy of the communist dictatorship that banned abortions. Thousands of children died, thousands of women died who tried to get rid of pregnancy by old methods, some of them downright barbaric. as is still the case today to a large extent with any minority: ethnic, religious, sexual and more. Others, on the periphery of society, became criminals, victims of the demographic policy of the communist dictatorship that banned abortions. Thousands of children died, thousands of women died who tried to get rid of pregnancy by old methods, some of them downright barbaric. as is still the case today to a large extent with any minority: ethnic, religious, sexual and more. Others, on the periphery of society, became criminals, victims of the demographic policy of the communist dictatorship that banned abortions. Thousands of children died, thousands of women died who tried to get rid of pregnancy by old methods, some of them downright barbaric.
In 1990 I went with a colleague from the magazine where I was working at an orphanage in Bucharest on Christmas Eve. The children camped on sweets and clothes bought with the help of colleagues, pulled on sweaters, pants, socks, those who managed to get their hands on an item of clothing ran away and hid under the rusty iron beds. And they never left. Many of them were naked, naked, with only skin and bone. When we wanted to leave, they encamped us in bunches, they held our clothes, they prayed for us to stay. "Take me in your arms, take me home with you," they prayed. Some swayed in one on rusty beds, suffered from autism, behavioral disorders or other mental illnesses. Inside, he smelled of urine, unwashed laundry, and baby sweat.
The orphanages were littered with rats, the children were starving, cold, washed with a cold water hose. But the caregivers took it well, took the food from the children's mouths, and so as not to be interrupted by crocheting, they beat them like animals. After December ’89, trucks with food and clothing from the West began to arrive. Many stopped at the gates of the orphanages. But the children were still starving and naked, because humanitarian aid was being handed over and taken home by the staff of those ghettos, from the director to the caregivers and doctors.
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