"Your disease is dissent" - a thread on the weaponization of psychiatry by the Soviets and how communism is inherently incompatible with human rights and dignity:
Soviet psychiatry was used for the systematic punishment and erasure of political dissidents.
“No psychiatric diagnosis is quite so linked with the repressiveness of the Soviet government and corruption of the medical profession as schizophrenia.”
(Zajicek, 2014)
Mar 7, 2024 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
An 8-part thread about the treatment of queers in the USSR
Spoiler: communism sucked
Mar 4, 2023 • 24 tweets • 3 min read
How people with disabilities were treated in the USSR - a thread on ableism, abuse, stigma, isolation, and exploitation during the 'progressive' communism regime:
During Soviet occupation, every citizen's social value was measured in their potential labor output.
Disabilities were classified by their degree of labor capacity; those who had some or moderate ability, had a duty to work. This duty would later become a compulsory measure.
