Introduction
According to Horvath & Robert (2005), USSR, that is currently Russia has been a communist nation since the 19th century. The Soviet Union has been a socialist federation containing many institutions of the country and other non-governmental organizations. In the past, many human and civil rights were limited prompting the formation of some civil rights organizations. The political dispensations were so limited, and this notion necessitated the upcoming of trade unions and private corporations that would be used to fight the dictatorial regimes in the USSR. The constitution in the 1960’s allowed for political freedom but in the USSR, at this time, it restricted the freedom …show more content…
As a fact, Russia being a communist nation, its core principles were majorly social and not capitalistic as a majority of the states in the world. There were civil rights movements fighting for the rights of the disabled and special education in Russia. The United Nations formulated many rules to the USSR on how such privileges should be ascertained (Horvath & Robert, 2005). The Russian Federation is accustomed to providing the United Nations with resolutions they have put in place to govern and protect the freedoms of the underprivileged. At one point, the Amnesty International criticized Russia for their weak dealings in the fight for human rights freedom. At the beginning of the 1980’s, the United Nations pushed the Soviet Union to establish an International Year calendar for the Disabled Groups in Russia. This idea was to provide for the records of these disabled individuals so that statistical data can be given to the UN for verification and filing (Glendon, 2001). UNICEF, under the UN, was mandated to outline the disability issues in Russia by underlining the Baltic States. The report shows the rates of health, poverty, welfare, lack of necessities and the recreational activities that should be taken into account for the development of the particularly affected group (Closs et al.,