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YEREVAN, Armenia — Tens of thousands of people languished in psychiatric hospitals in the Soviet Union for years, not because they were insane but because they held views that contradicted the system.
Happily, the use of forced psychiatric confinement to punish those who questioned the state plunged in the first decade after the collapse of the USSR in 1991.
But the practice resurfaced jn the late 1990s.
And anecdotal evidence indicates it is growing, although it has yet to come close to the scale seen in Soviet times. Now the number of those who are sane but confined against …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
