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Soviet Dissidents Face Psychiatric Repression Across the USSR
The piece profiles prominent figures like Sakharov and Solzhenitsyn and explains how the regime uses exile, surveillance, and forced psychiatric confinement to suppress dissent. It cites cases such as Bukovsky and Amalrik, describing prison camps, strict regimes, and alleged "insane asylum" sentences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Medvedev
London
Valery
Soviet Union
N. Chalidze
United States
Alexander
Yesenin-Volpin
Italy
William L. Ryan
Kremlin
Andrei D. Sakharov
Alexander I. Solzhenitsyn
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Communist Party
U.S.S.R
Russia
Lenin
Sakharov
Solzhenitsyn
Nikita S
Khrushchev
Bertram D. Wolfe
Stanford University
Vladimir Bukovsky
Serbsky Institute of Forensic Psychiatry
Pyotr Grigorenko
Chernyakovsk
Andrei Amalrik
Jou
Plyushch