27 January 2003 SOFIA, Bulgaria (BETA)–The shelter for the mentally challenged in the Bulgarian village of Podgumer is among the best such institutions in the country, but only because all the others institutions are much worse. “I came here 16 years ago. Until then I knew the inside of concentration camps only from movies, but now I know from personal […]

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