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.
You’re right I’ve never heard of the US’ mistreatment of black people before, why aren’t more people talking about this?
OH WAIT people talk about it all the time and you just needed a convenient whataboutism. Imagine if someone brought up the Katyn Massacre every time someone talked about Jim Crow laws lmao.
I am a Black person you absolute twat. Caring about my own life is not “whataboutism” and it’s fucking ghoulish for you to discount my life because it’s more convenient for you.
Get bent.
That’s not what they meant. You suggested that people who criticise the USSR automatically ignore human rights abuses from the USA (specifically - to black people). This is a baseless claim. How do you know that everyone who highlights USSR human rights abuses ignores USA human rights abuses?
There’s the (insert drama music) discounting your life and then there’s you talking about black people when the post’s about Soviet Union… so, yeah… whataboutism.
You can try talking about black people in Soviet-era Russia, that’d be interesting.
Hey now don’t forget about the Katyn Massacre!
So intellectual consistency is too much ask.
You just said something about something bad US did, but I didn’t see anything in your comment about all the other atrocities that all the other counties commited.
Inconsistent hypocrite much?
Not one of you imbeciles read my point.
I notice you didn’t mention Israel or the nazis being bad either, be ideologically consistent and talk about Myanmar and Unit 731 and NK killing dissidents and everything right now then, since you have to talk about everything bad at the same time and can’t focus on the topic for ONE THREAD.
Go cry about it