Trump Considers Reopening 'Insane Asylums' in Crusade Against Crime

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19. The Soviet Union would send dissidents to mental hospitals

Criticism of the regime was seen as a form of mental illness:

In the Brezhnev era a new disease was described: ‘sluggish’ or ‘creeping’
schizophrenia, the only symptom of which was the expression of politically
unacceptable views. Dissidents were treated with massive doses of psychoactive
drugs, which produced agonising side effects.

According to one former detainee, Viktor Fainberg, confining political
activists in a mental hospital not only punished the offenders, but also
discredited their ideas in the eyes of the Soviet public which, by and large,
has a rather intolerant attitude to mental illness. Even in ‘mild’ cases
of dissent – for instance, criticising the lack of safety precautions in
the workplace – just placing the offender’s name on the psychiatric register
was enough to ensure years of discrimination in employment, housing and
the educational prospects of the offender’s children

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https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg13217951-100-soviet-union-admits-to-abuses-of-psychiatry/

Just wait until they decide being a liberal is a psychiatric disease. Oh wait, aren't they already saying this?