"I know it's hard to believe now, but this pile of rubble used to produce more than 50 million liters of beer per year." Gelu sighed. "Five types of beer!" he tried to explain.

"I started working when it was already in its heyday. There were about one thousand employees back then. The number slowly started to dwindle, getting to about a couple of hundred workers by the time Nicu (Ceausescu) left." 

Gelu was obviously very eager to share many of his stories as a worker at Margineni, but time was short and you decide to..