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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DJU9" data-source="post: 12335337" data-attributes="member: 44472"><img src="http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/withoutus031512/s_w09_35491366.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />   A goat walks through a deserted school classroom in the village of   Voynitsa, some 100 kms (60 miles) north of the capital Sofia, at the   heart of Bulgaria's northwestern region, on December 6, 2011. The bare   fields, the empty roads, the ruined houses and the shuttered schools say   it all. Welcome to Bulgaria's rural northwest, officially the poorest   region in the European Union. In the 1970s and 1980s, the region saw   massive industrialization, making goods solely for the communist-era   Comecon market. But when the Iron Curtain fell 20 years ago, the   factories closed.</blockquote>

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