The Right to Mercy

Accommodation for the elderly in a nursing home for the elderly; their living conditions (living for several people in one room), the provision of medical care to them; meals in the dining room. Performance of the orchestra of disabled musicians on the street; begging money is thrown at them. Unemployed people, invalids of the Great Patriotic War, talk (synchronously) about their problems with employment, receiving a disability pension. Fundraising on the street for the Red Cross and Red Crescent. Sister of Mercy E. S. Chistyakova talks about her visits to sick, lonely people. Interview with the chairman of the Leningrad City Committee of the Red Cross Society V. P. Repyev, the chairman of the district committee of the Red Cross Society of Leningrad L. A. Fedorov and others (synchronously).

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1989