It seemed pretty horrible and not at all nostalgic to me from the article. > nearly inedible, watered-down food > Hepatitis B and HIV/AIDS ravaged the Romania

It seemed pretty horrible and not at all nostalgic to me from the article. > nearly inedible, watered-down food > Hepatitis B and HIV/AIDS ravaged the Romanian orphanages > naked children on benches > overcrowded rooms where [...] orphans endlessly rocked, or punched themselves in the face, or shrieked And at one point I think the article does draw a comparison with the liberation of nazi concentration camps? Not sure were you get the nostalgia from.