The Soviet system used psychiatry as a weapon by diagnosing political opponents as mentally ill in order to confine them as patients instead of trying them in court. Anyone who challenged the state such as dissidents, writers, would-be emigrants, religious believers, or human rights activists could be branded with fabricated disorders like sluggish schizophrenia. This turned normal political disagreement into supposed medical pathology and allowed the state to present dissent as insanity.
Once labeled in this way, people were placed in psychiatric hospitals where they could be held for long periods without legal protections. Harsh treatments were often used to break their resolve. The collaboration between state security organs and compliant psychiatrists created a system where political imprisonment was disguised as medical care, letting the Soviet regime suppress opposition while pretending it was addressing illness rather than silencing critics.
The Stalin system and kept later on… Rather far away from what a soviet system was supposed to be.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions and " supposed to be’s. It didn’t start with Stalin, even if he was one of the worst offenders. Whatever it was supposed to be, died in the cradle when a salty bitch named Vladimir Lenin. Who couldn’t suffer losing the countries first democratic election. Ended any meaningful democracy when he appointed himself over the winner. Enabling Stalin.
democratic election is what brought us hitler, be glad to lenin. You cant have democracy when countries far richer than you are plotting against you. A true democracy is never possible under capitalist system
Strong words expressed via bad writing. Somehow this makes your comment even better.