Russia Has Started Sending Anti-War Protestors to Psychiatric Hospitals
In the Soviet Union, it was commonplace to remove politically unreliable citizens from society and place them in psychiatric wards. After stints of electroshock therapy and just forcing mentally sound people to live for months with genuinely unwell patients, the dissidents would often return to society themselves weakened mentally — think of Jack Nicholson at the end of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
In most cases, the victims of the Soviet experiments for “correcting” the thinking processes would either go back to their old, dissident ways or be fearful of more punishment, and so keep their mouths shut but, more than ever, resentful of the system.
What they couldn’t escape, though, was the “official stamp” in passports that declared them “mentally unfit.” To this day, if a person ever enters a hospital for psychiatric observation, a doctor is required to make an official declaration of the person’s mental status for the future.
For instance, a doctor’s medical opinion can prevent citizens from driving cars, taking loans, buying houses, etc. In some cases, I am sure that people can even be prevented from procreating, but I am not sure — fortunately, I did…
