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Everyone remembers the shocking pictures of Romanian orphans, tied to their cots in squalid institutions. Decades on, many children are still being held in old-style institutions.
At the beginning of this century, 700-thousand Saxon Germans lived in Transylvanian Romania. But since the revolution 10 years ago, hundreds of thousands have sought a new life in Germany, and their villages are quickly becoming ghost towns.
Since the pictures of disturbed children crowded into unsanitary orphanages shocked the world, western money has poured into Romanian orphanages. But now a longer term solution is needed.
A look at 90's Romania and its attempt to become a member of NATO.
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