The saddest place in Bulgaria has a name, and it's called Galabovo. There stands the Brikel Power Plant, operating beyond any national and European legislation and standards while generating enormous profits at the expense of the health and lives of thousands of people in the region.
In Galabovo and the surrounding villages, the air tastes of sulfur, and lungs fill with soot with every breath. This is a place where they dump an entire concrete truck's worth of cement at your front door, cancel weddings, and shut down the pensioners' club if you don't vote for the "right" mayor—now serving his sixth term.
