[History] Why were disabled people persecuted in the USSR?
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Even now there are almost no accommodations for the disabled in Russia, plenty of people have a very difficult time. I think the Moscow Metro still has no elevators, but I have seen people get creative on the escalators.
It's a very prominent problem.
I used to have a website link to map of Russian cities, predominately Moscow, which listed each street and each building and how many people had disappeared from each building. Living in the center of Moscow I recognized there were many buildings in my neighborhood. Really really creepy, including our next door building.
However when I just went to search for that link which I've had many years, it's 404'd - https://memoryfull.ru/purge/repressions.html
Check the wayback machine https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://memoryfull.ru/purge/repressions.html but I see there should be an interactive google map which doesn't work
Nice find. Using wayback to a 2011 save there is a little more. But the maps are gone.
https://web.archive.org/web/20110718095315/https://memoryfull.ru/purge/repressions.html
Yeah. Maybe you should look around the site in the archives to see if they ever published the data set as a simple file to download. Sometimes those get captured too.
URL checks out.
I'm beating myself across the head for not having archived it, it's just not something I think about frequently and then when I went back to find it .. nyet.
I remember the maps so well as most of the buildings listed still stand, and I poured over it. I think if I were really determined to find a source that saved/archived it, I would look to something like Novaya Gazeta or Memorial.
Interesting…
So I’m an Olympics/Paralympics nut, right (don’t know exactly why. Guess I was the right age for Sydney 2000, and it went from there!), and one thing I explicitly noticed this year is that Ukraine absolutely dominated a lot of the Paralympic sports, in a way they didn’t at Olympic level. Like, matched only by “Great Britain”, the US, Germany (of course), and bloody China…
Russia, by contrast, did well, but nowhere near on the same level, which I found surprising (Putin did, however, give at least some of the Paralympians Russian “medals of honor”, when they returned, so it’s not like they were “invisible” in Russia, lol).
I realise that Russia and Ukraine are not the same, and I also realise that the whole ROC/RPC “banning of Russia” debacle would have impacted things, but it does make you think: if Russia invested in Paralympic sport in the same way that Ukraine and Germany obviously do (also Poland, to a lesser extent) - man, how good could they be??!
Same problem with Japan, who were the hosts, obviously… Though they seemed to view the Paralympians with even more of a dismissive sneer, which is… Unfortunate, but perhaps unsurprising given Japan’s historical obsession with uhh… “Purity”… 🤢
Are you sure about that? Because that doesn't match my experience when talking to any Japanese people. Maybe that's just compared to Americans who couldn't care less about the Olympics, and don't even know what Paralympics is... but many Japanese actually treat it as a legitimate sporting contest. Some of it airs on TV like the Olympics, and the news stations give regular updates on the results. People might not know individual competitors like they do famous olympians, but they anticipate the results and add the totals for Olympics + Paralympics together to see how well Japan did vs. other countries.
You certainly cant gauge national excitement for an event based on how well the athletes perform.