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We worked until late in the night because many people could not meet their quotas Hygiene was abysmal The only place where the so called incorrigibles could bathe was the nearby Osam River Their old army uniforms were lice infested and their shacks full of bedbugs and fleas For over a year medical care was nonexistent Neno Hristov from the village of Izvorovo recalled I had never seen people with festering wounds containing worms We had to ask somebody to urinate on the wounds so they could heal Following the collapse of Communism in 1989 the Military Prosecutor's Office began an investigation Medical experts concluded that inmates were denied contact with the outside world and could not make demands or lodge complaints to preserve their self respect and human dignity Living conditions were marked by inexcusable sadism The man who oversaw this barbaric regime was General Mircho Spasov Deputy Interior Minister and a close associate of Todor Zhivkov Petar Gogov the camp s chief officer said Everything was done according to Spasov s orders He banned all visits refused the sick access to hospital and ordered that the dead be kept from relatives Tsvyatko Goranov head of the quarry recalled Spasov saying Mircho Spasov gave orders to toil from sunrise to sunset They must labour under the hardest conditions from dawn till dusk Work until they drop dead When interrogated in 1990 Mircho Spasov said
