Alone Until the End

A society that prided itself on placing “concern for the people” at the heart of its values left behind orphanages filled with abandoned children treated in inhumane conditions, and exhausted elderly people who had worked their entire lives only to end up in poverty and neglect. It was hard to believe that such places could still exist – places where human beings are treated in ways that, in the 1990s, severely damaged the image of Romanian society on the world stage. And yet, decades later, we learn that such subhuman treatment is still taking place all around us, closer than we would ever care to imagine.