Abuse of Psychiatry for Political Repression in the Soviet Union: Hearing, Ninety-second Congress, Second Session, Part 1

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Page 41 - ... deprivation of freedom for a term of six months to seven years, with or without additional exile for a term of two to five years, or by exile for a term of two to five years
Page 41 - In conformity with the interests of the working people, and in order to strengthen the socialist system, the citizens of the USSR are guaranteed by law: a) freedom of speech; b) freedom of the press; c) freedom of assembly, including the holding of mass meetings; d) freedom of street processions and demonstrations.
Page 41 - In accordance with the interests of the working people, and in order to strengthen the socialist system, the citizens of the USSR are guaranteed by law: (a) Freedom of speech. (b) Freedom of the press. (c) Freedom of assembly and meetings. (d) Freedom of street processions and demonstrations.
Page 41 - Agitation or propaganda carried on for the purpose of subverting or weakening Soviet authority or of committing particular, especially dangerous crimes against the state, or circulating for the same purpose slanderous fabrications which defame the Soviet state and social system, or circulating or preparing or keeping, for the same purpose, literature of such content, shall be punished by deprivation of freedom for a term of six months to seven years, with or without additional exile for a term of...
Page 45 - It is time to think clearly: the incarceration of free-thinking healthy people in madhouses is spiritual murder, it is a variation of the gas chamber, but even more cruel : the torture of the people being killed is more malicious and more prolonged.
Page 38 - I have here before me the text of the Soviet Constitution which says : "In accordance with the interests of the workers and with the aim of strengthening the socialist system, citizens of the USSR are guaranteed by law . . . the right of street processions and demonstrations.
Page 41 - These civil rights are ensured by placing at the disposal of the working people and their organizations printing presses, stocks of paper, public buildings, the streets, communication facilities, and other material requisites for the exercise of these rights.
Page 41 - ... conducted with a slogan demanding the freeing of Galanskov, Dobrovolsky, Lashkova and Radzievsky. But they have not even been convicted yet. What if it turns out that they are not guilty? In fact, Radzievsky has already been released from custody. Then where is the criminality of our demonstration? Now as to our second slogan. We did not come out against laws. We demanded the abrogation of the decree of September 16 and the revision of Article 70 of the Criminal Code. Was this really an illegal...
Page 231 - January onwards I have been given two tablets of haloperidol twice daily, that is four tablets in all (and Kozich assures me that this will go on for a long time). This medicine makes me feel more awful than anything I have experienced before; you no sooner lie down than you want to get up, you no sooner take a step than you're longing to sit down, and if you sit down, you want to walk again — and there's nowhere to walk.
Page 49 - Orders of Lenin, two Orders of the Red Banner, the Order of the Red Star, the Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky (second class), and the Order of the Patriotic War (first class).