The Soviet system used psychiatry as a weapon by diagnosing political opponents as mentally ill in order to confine them as patients instead of trying them in court. Anyone who challenged the state such as dissidents, writers, would-be emigrants, religious believers, or human rights activists could be branded with fabricated disorders like sluggish schizophrenia. This turned normal political disagreement into supposed medical pathology and allowed the state to present dissent as insanity.
Once labeled in this way, people were placed in psychiatric hospitals where they could be held for long periods without legal protections. Harsh treatments were often used to break their resolve. The collaboration between state security organs and compliant psychiatrists created a system where political imprisonment was disguised as medical care, letting the Soviet regime suppress opposition while pretending it was addressing illness rather than silencing critics.
I was threatened with that kind of thing as a young kid… because people in power thought I was a communist. (I was, even then, but that’s not the point.)
And these people accused the Soviets of throwing adult political dissidents into “criminally insane” asylum-jails, while these Western ghouls invented the idea of child dissidents, who they throw into straight up for profit prisons. Which they’re allowed to do with no actual mental health diagnosis at all, not even the Drapetomania level farce that is “Oppositional Defiant Disorder”, because Western paradigms of family and society treat children as property and all you need to do is convince the parent/property owner the kid has a problem and you can fix it.