"TIL: In the Soviet Union, they considered being against the state a mental illness and would lock you up for the crime of being mentally ill"
https://lemmy.world/post/39719519The 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. ... read full post

















