Periprava is a small hamlet deep inside the Danube Delta, right beside the Romanian border with Ukraine. This is one of the most remote, poorest and less inhabitated areas in Europe. Prosperous in times of Ceaucescu’s communism, Periprava, as the whole Delta, fell in disgrace after 1989 revolution.
Far from everything as it is, off the economic network built in new years of Romanian democracy, the area started then a decline that seems to have reached the very bottom years ago and does not seem like recovering any time soon.
There is nothing to live off in Periprava. Apart from just a few, all those in working age have left either for Europe or for other cities inside Romania looking for a future they can’t find at all within the area.
Nowadays, Periprava’s inhabitans are mainly old people. They openly miss Ceaucescu’s years. For them, instead of freedom and prosperity, democracy has just brought misery and economic isolation to the hamlet.
