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30 Years Ago, Romania Deprived Thousands of Babies of Human Contact

30 Years Ago, Romania Deprived Thousands of Babies of Human Contact

Can a person unloved in childhood learn to love? In 1990, the world discovered Romania’s network of «child gulags» in which an estimated 170000 infants, children, and teens were being «raised». What became of them? Extraordinary longread.


From Weekly Filet #309, in July 2020.

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