The fascist and communists are very similar in regard to population control. Fuck them both.
this post was submitted on 04 Dec 2025
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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.
So, this gave me a touch of the Deja Vu. And then I realized why. This is exactly the same thing Scientologists claim about the American psychiatric system.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology_and_psychiatry
In 1951, however, Hubbard's wife Sara Northrup Hollister reportedly consulted psychiatrists who recommended Hubbard be institutionalized; thereafter, Hubbard was increasingly hostile towards psychiatry.
It's also come up among the Falun Gong and the modern Protestant Evangelical Church
While there's ample opposition to the criminalization of mental infirmity, the folks who seem the loudest in opposition to psychiatry as some form of evil Soviet plot tend to be individuals and organizations that benefit from a members with untreated illness.
Generally, abusers make a lot of money, and sometimes can end up being louder than the actual victims. Because they make a full time job of being loud. Good luck getting your psychiatry victim association to the com budget of scientology.
Or competing with alpha-male-mindset-influencers who spend all their income on finding brand new ways of turning bad breakups and loneliness into various sales. I think they get by far the most public attention on those subjects, might be wrong.
There's a bunch of similar situations with companies selling well-being stuff, conspiracy theorist news sites, etc.
I just wanted to point out it's a general thing
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Thats government 101. It was done in the USSR, its still done today in the USA and China.
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The problem is psychiatry in general. Always been a tool for hegemonic control.
From the article, western sources claim some 15k people affected over the entirety of the Soviet Union. So yeah, something that did happen, but still quite a minor thing for a country with 300 million people over 70+ years of existence.
For comparison, over 700k people experience homelessness today in the USA, which is arguably at least as damaging to mental (let alone physical health), and if we count the number of people who have experienced homelessness over the past 70 years in the USA it's several million if not tens of millions.
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This is very common in authoritarian governments. They did the same kind of thing in Pinochet’s Chile, for example.
The Soviet system
The Stalin system and kept later on... Rather far away from what a soviet system was supposed to be.
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Sounds like "Trump derangement syndrome"