[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.