Nothing like celebrating the good old days of the Soviet Union under Stalin. Good times!
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!”