Parliament Reveals: Psychiatry Used for Political Repression — Liepāja Theater Critics Consider Alternatives
Parliamentary deputies have found that during Soviet times, unpleasant diagnoses were prescribed for political motives. The research will be conducted without money.
While audiences at Liepāja Theater are still debating whether show reviews are too harsh, Parliament on Thursday adopted a declaration on Soviet repressive psychiatry. Turns out that during the USSR era, political dissidents were treated with forced hospitalization and bizarre diagnoses.
In Riga, parliamentarians wrote beautiful words about how necessary it is to study this dark page of history. But, as always, they forgot to allocate money. Museum of the Occupation director Inese Jansone explains: "We need a special commission with resources, not just beautiful promises."
Liepāja pensioner Alberts, who remembers those times, comments: "Well, back then they also said everything was free. Turned out — we paid dearly." In his opinion, it would be better to watch some play about history at Liepāja Theater than wait for Riga to find money for research.
Interestingly, the declaration mentions the time period from June 17, 1940 to August 21, 1991. The precision is commendable, but do we really need so long to understand — if someone is locked up in a hospital for wanting to live in a free country, then that's not treatment, but repression? Even Liepāja theater critics understand that faster.
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