In the Soviet Union, psychiatric hospitals were often used by the authorities as prisons, in order to isolate political prisoners from the rest of society, discredit their ideas, and break them physically and mentally.
在蘇聯，精神病醫院經常被當局用來作為監獄，以便將政治犯與社會其他人隔離，詆毀他們的想法，敗壞他們的名聲。