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> Psychiatric hospitals in Russia/USSR (психушка) are virtually prisons, they were often used to involuntarily hold political prisoners. Indeed. The fact that
by adonovan 3y ago
> Psychiatric hospitals in Russia/USSR (психушка) are virtually prisons, they were often used to involuntarily hold political prisoners.
Indeed. The fact that no-one among the entire staff of the hospital over all those decades endeavored even to identify the patient's only language tells you that it was not a hospital.
- flashback2199 3y agoYeah, even in the US people used to get trapped in psychiatric hospitals. It wasn't until the law chipped away at the legal ability to keep patients that changed.
- smeej 3y agoAnother link someone posted said for the first 30+ years, there were other Hungarian patients he could speak to, so it isn't like they didn't know.