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  2. Orphans in the Soviet Union - Wikipedia

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    The orphanages were inaugurated in a spirit of revolutionary idealism, but were soon overwhelmed by the need to feed and house millions of homeless children. [20] By the mid-1920s, the Soviet state was forced to realize that its resources for orphanages were inadequate, that it lacked the capacity to raise and educate the USSR's stray children.

  3. List of sovereign states in the 1920s - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of sovereign states in the 1920s, giving an overview of states around the world during the period between 1 January 1920 and 31 December 1929. It contains entries, arranged alphabetically, with information on the status and recognition of their sovereignty .

  4. Homelessness in Russia - Wikipedia

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    By 1922, there were at least 7 million homeless children in Russia as a result of nearly a decade of devastation from World War I and the Russian Civil War. [1] This led to the creation of many orphanages. By the 1930s, the USSR declared the abolition of homelessness and every citizen was obliged to have a propiska – a place of permanent ...

  5. Orphans in Russia - Wikipedia

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    The number of orphanages has increased by 100% between 2002 and 2012 to 2,176. [2] Some of the reasons for children to end up in the orphanages are domestic abuse, parental substance abuse, having lost their parents, or being found alone on the streets. [4] As for those who are social orphans there are various reasons why they end up in orphanages.

  6. List of concentration and internment camps - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of internment and concentration camps, organized by country.In general, a camp or group of camps is designated to the country whose government was responsible for the establishment and/or operation of the camp regardless of the camp's location, but this principle can be, or it can appear to be, departed from in such cases as where a country's borders or name has changed or it ...

  7. Category:Orphanages in Russia - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Orphanages in Russia" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. * Orphans in Russia; A.

  8. Category:Orphanages by country - Wikipedia

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    Orphanages in Russia (6 P) S. Orphanages in Sri Lanka (2 P) ... Orphanages in the United Kingdom (1 C, 21 P) Orphanages in the United States (1 C, 41 P)

  9. Russian Children's Welfare Society - Wikipedia

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    The Russian Children's Welfare Society is a not-for-profit, 501(c)(3) organization based in New York City with branches in Moscow and San Francisco.It was founded in 1926 to help Russian children whose families fled to other countries after the onset of the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917.