Hut half-buried in the ground built by the deportees in the Bărăgan steppe

In 1951, during the Yugoslav conflict, 44,000 people were deported from the frontier zone to the barren Bărăgan steppe in south-eastern Romania. In the first phase of the deportation, people were left in the open and had to build themselves huts half-buried in the ground. Photo received from the Association of the Former Political Deportees in Bărăgan