Life was not good for the disabled veterans of Russia.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn brings it up in “The Gulag Archipelago”, the severely disabled veterans of the Great Patriotic War that lost the capacity to work being sent to gulags and forced resettlement.
Stalin did not like the look of them begging in the cities because the disability support was insufficient to survive.
The most infamous of these is the Spasskaia labor colony near Karaganda, Kazakhstan, to which 15,000 disabled prisoners were sent in the late 1940s and early 1950s (Solzhenitsyn).
And the unfortunate veterans sent to Valaam... After the rumors of the veterans organizing for something to live on.
“There Are No Invalids in the USSR!”
Solzhenitsyn admitted in one of his gulag books that he raped a German woman when his troops passed through Germany. One of his men asked him what woman he wanted, he picked her out, it happened at a family farm. The woman begged him not to kill her and he let her go. He said he regretted the incident. I was appalled when I read his own words about it. No further comment.