Russia: Tatarstan Disability Consultation Hotline Opened! (5.11.2021)

The Ministry of Labour, Employment and Social Protection of the Republic has organized a hotline – to mark the beginning of the decade announcing enhanced care for disabled people – the Press Service of the Department reports. From November 1st to 10th – individuals can contribute via telephone regarding the implementation of the rights of people with disabilities – including children with disabilities.

Grunya Sukhareva (Груня Сухарева) [1891-1981] – Forgotten Soviet Pioneer of ‘Autism’ Research (1925) 

During her lifetime, Sukhareva opened such schools all over the country. However, its influence and authority did not go beyond Soviet borders, which was the result of political and language barriers. Only a small part of the Soviet research of that time was translated into other languages, very often it was German rather than English. Although her work of 1925 was translated into German the following year, the translation was unsuccessful, even the name of the author of the work was distorted as “Ssuchareva”. The work was translated into English only in 1996, 15 years after Sukhareva’s death, when Sula Wolff, a British psychiatrist, stumbled upon it. 

Declassified: Official Soviet Losses During the Great Patriotic War Amount to Nearly 42 million (1941-1945)

As a result, partial statistics were given-out which were ‘correct’ from a particular context. As no one had access to the total number except a trusted few – the onus was all about a rapid reconstruction of the Soviet infrastructure (including the building of houses and the caring for the millions of people missing limbs and who had been made disabled etc), and a military preparation for an unprovoked attack from the US and their allies! All this was going on whilst the Soviet Space Programme was developing the technology which would soon shock the world – all under the guidance of the ‘elected’ General Secretary – Joseph Stalin – the last great leader the USSR would have!

Working-Class Dental Hygiene: When Cleaning Your Teeth is a Revolutionary Act!

to the third world level it is at today and opened the door to widespread private health cover throughout the area. This left millions of ordinary people without regular dentistry checks and treatments, and reduced what was left of the NHS treatment to an absolute emergency level designed to relieve pain but not treat the sources of that pain (as that would require long-term and regular dentist care).

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