The use of psychiatric hospitals as prisons and reeducation centers in Soviet Russia was rampant in the 1960’s. In an article by Sidney Bloch and Peter Reddaway written in 1973 called Russia’s Political Hospitals. The Abuse of Psychiatry in the Soviet Union it is stated that at least 210 political dissidents were placed in psychiatric care from […]
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Red Star, Week 7 Posts
The Entitlement Warriors
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The Soviet veterans of the Great Patriotic War, though united through the fight for entitlements, differed greatly in generational experience and social welfare. The frontline generation, born between 1923 and 1927, “had not been established in adult life before the war and by 1945 had not learned much more than ‘shoot, throw grenades, and creep around’… Continue reading The Entitlement Warriors →
Week 7 Posts
900 Days of Starvation
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September 8, 1941 was the day that would mark the beginning of a horrific two and a half years for the City of Leningrad(modern day St. Petersburg). General Ritter von Leeb who was the commander of Germany’s Army Group North had severed the city’s last main road and began bombarding targets, the harshest lethal siege in history began on this day. Hitler’s goal was to …
Comrades' Corner, Week 7 Posts
The Soviet “VA” and the Veterans of WW2
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The Great Patriotic War took an unbelievable toll on Russia and its people. German atrocities were widespread: villages were burned to the ground, women raped. men enslaved, and children killed. Most of the people of the Ukraine and other parts of Western Europe lots all they had to the enemy. The people of cities like […]
