[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
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.