Locking opponents up in psychiatric institutions was NEVER "an old Soviet technique". Archived Message Posted by Der on April 26, 2020, 12:18 am, in reply to "Coronavirus lockdown: German lawyer detained (in a psychiatric institution) for opposition" There was a lot wrong with the Soviet Union. For a start, shortly after the Bolsheviks stole the revolution they set about eliminating the soviets (councils), so to describe themselves as the Soviet Union is mass deception. However, there has never been a shred of evidence that there was a "technique" or policy of locking up people who disagreed with them in psychiatric institutions. In The Soviet Century Moshe Lewin describes how the psychiatrist D B Dmitrieva, herself a "harsh critic of the Soviet system", supporter of Yeltsin and Health Minister in the Yeltsin Government, argues that "there was no widespread policy - and perhaps no policy at all - of using psychiatry for political ends in the USSR". "There might simply have been instances of personal corruption or yielding to political pressure on the part of some psychiatrists. In any event, the jury is still out on this." Dmitrieva became "head of the State Institute of Social and Criminal Psychiatry – the well-known institution ... that is alleged to have been the main culprit in supplying phoney diagnoses of psychiatric illness for perfectly healthy political critics." She came to her conclusion "On the basis of research conducted in the Institute’s archives of all the cases that passed through it..." (The Soviet Century, Moshe Lewin, Verso, 2005, 2016, p. 194. Footnote 10). All quotes are from Lewin not Dmitrieva. Message Thread: Coronavirus lockdown: German lawyer detained (in a psychiatric institution) for opposition - Rich April 25, 2020, 5:00 pm From what I make out... - Ken Waldron April 25, 2020, 8:34 pm Locking opponents up in psychiatric institutions was NEVER "an old Soviet technique". - Der April 26, 2020, 12:18 am Re: Coronavirus lockdown: German lawyer detained (in a psychiatric institution) for opposition - walter April 26, 2020, 1:19 am Re: Coronavirus lockdown: German lawyer detained (in a psychiatric institution) for opposition - Ken Waldron April 26, 2020, 11:29 am Also worth noting that the UK coronavirus bill means only one doctor is now reqd to section someone - flash April 26, 2020, 6:52 am More "conspiracist" nonsense. It never stops. It seems obvious the woman had a psychotic episode and - Der April 26, 2020, 8:26 am Trusting soul Der :) - walter April 27, 2020, 12:43 am   Searching