[REQ] Cheated of Childhood (2002)

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[REQ] Cheated of Childhood (2002)

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Cheated of Childhood (2002)
Once the glittering capital of Russia, the city of St. Petersburg and its magnificent metro stations have become home to a generation of street children who survive by begging, informal child labor or prostitution. The end of communism may have brought many positive economic changes in the lives of ordinary Russians, but it's also led to soaring rates of unemployment, alcoholism and family breakdown - driving children as young as seven to leave home to seek some kind of a living on the streets.

There are believed to be over a million homeless children in Russia, and in St. Petersburg alone, 16,000 children live on the streets. President Vladimir Putin has described the situation as the "most threatening of his country's economic and social indicators".

This installment of LIFE looks at the work of the International Labor Organization, whose efforts to rescue and rehabilitate these street children are a wholly new phenomenon.
http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/l3coc.html

Hmm this reminds me of Dzieci z Leningradzkiego, in fact I think it has some of the material (but not sure). I find these post Soviet documentaries facinating. This is mostly about the boys though. It's on YouTube (req until it reaches emule)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEBz9NPioe4


Still also looking for this one if anyone can help? I did many searches, but nothing.

https://www.first-loves.com/forums/view ... lit=serbia
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