In the Soviet period, punitive psychiatry was so widespread that one fourth of the dissidents accused of political crimes were declared "mentally ill." Even mor

In the Soviet period, punitive psychiatry was so widespread that one fourth of the dissidents accused of political crimes were declared "mentally ill." Even more widespread was the practice of compulsory hospitalization without court order, done simply on the orders of the KGB. Each year the highest authorities in Moscow sent up to 1,000 people to psychiatric hospitals. These were people who had come to capital to fight for justice denied in their hometowns. The same situation could be observed in the provinces. https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2013/10/13/soviet-psychiatry-returns-a28539 https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2013/10/13/soviet-psychiatry-... Since 1921, the Soviet authorities began to gradually use psychiatry to combat dissidents and human rights defenders. They abused their powers, falsifying diagnoses of unwanted people and sending them to hospitals for an indefinite period. This practice has become known as "punitive psychiatry", becoming one of the most famous and brutal examples of repression in the USSR. Over the years, Joseph Brodsky and Yegor Letov became its victims, and the practice stopped only under the decline of the USSR, when up to two million people passed through it. https://tjournal.ru/stories/153921-karatelnoe-lechenie-inakomysliya-v-sssr-ekspertiza-priznanie-nevmenyaemym-i-neyroleptiki https://tjournal.ru/stories/153921-karatelnoe-lechenie-inako... That is just Google translated above