Obligatory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_abuse_of_psychiatry_in_the_Soviet_Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_abuse_of_psychiatry_... Par

Obligatory: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_abuse_of_psychiatry_in_the_Soviet_Union https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_abuse_of_psychiatry_... Particularly: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sluggish_schizophrenia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sluggish_schizophrenia ...which allowed people who weren't crazy, but showed subtle signs (like, say, questioning Communism) that they might become crazy, to be locked up "for their own protection".