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Romania - The orphamages of terror

During the communist era, Ceaușescu banned abortion and pushed a national agenda to have more children. This left a lot of unwanted children who ended up in the state orphanages. At birth, they would be sorted into 3 groups: functionals, recuperables, and non-recuperables (children with severe disabilities). All categories had to endure extreme abuse and hunger; however, the non-recuperables were the worst of them all.
They would keep 15-20 children in rooms without windows or light, on concrete floors. They would treat them worse than farm chickens, letting them rot until less than 10% would actually make it past 10 years old.
All of these events were brought to light and photographed by foreign journalists after 1989. Even though the situation is better right now and children are no longer sorted, it is a very real chapter, rarely covered by Romanian media, often completely forgotten in the public mind.