This is what “GREAT VICTORY” looked like. Moscow, 1966. A man with no arms, no legs, strapped to a wheeled board, pays his respects at the Eternal Flame. Officially, there were 2.5 million disabled Soviet veterans after WWII. Between 450,000 and 500,000 of them had lost limbs. By the late 1940s, Soviet policy began “clearing” them from the streets, sending them to remote almshouses, where they wouldn’t spoil the view. In 1955, there were 973 disabled veterans in state care. By 1957, just 691. Not because they died, because they disappeared. People called them “samovar people” because of their resemblance to a tea boiler. So, what exactly are you celebrating?