People's Daily: "Pravda: Healthy People Locked in Psychiatric Hospitals"
On March 27, a report with a four-column large-font headline appeared in the Soviet revisionist newspaper Pravda: "Healthy People Locked in Psychiatric Hospitals." At first glance, people might think that this newspaper, which has never told the truth, seemed to be telling a bit of truth this time, reporting on the situation of the many healthy people locked in Soviet psychiatric hospitals. However, after reading the news under the headline, it was completely different. As it turned out, Pravda did not mention Soviet psychiatric hospitals at all, but talked at length about an Italian worker who, because of writing a letter criticizing the authorities, was locked in a psychiatric hospital by a judge based on the provisions of the Italian Penal Code. Pravda also wrote with considerable indignation: "Thus, in reality, anyone who attempts to express their own thoughts may be declared by the court as a particularly dangerous element and be locked in a psychiatric hospital."
One cannot help but ask, why did Pravda use a four-column large-font headline to publish such a piece of news and make such a big deal out of it? Such an extraordinary and lavish publicity by Pravda can only indicate that there is something fishy going on. Where is the fishy part? It lies in the Soviet revisionists' own psychiatric hospitals. It is well known that the Soviet revisionist authorities have established concentration camps everywhere across the country to suppress the people's resistance, imprisoning more than 1.7 million people in over a thousand concentration camps, and have locked a large number of people who oppose the Soviet social-imperialist internal and external policies into nine special "psychiatric hospitals." Among these people are workers, peasants, intellectuals, and military personnel. Their common "symptom" is the "attempt to express their own thoughts" regarding the Soviet revisionists' fascist rule, and therefore they were considered "particularly dangerous elements and locked in psychiatric hospitals." It is evident that the Soviet revisionists, under the banner of "socialism," are practicing a thorough fascist dictatorship. If the Italian judicial authorities have to use the cloak of "permitted by the provisions of the Penal Code" to lock people in psychiatric hospitals, then the Soviet revisionists, when doing such things, do not need any penal code provisions at all, but only a single word from the secret police agencies. A colonel physician of the Soviet revisionist secret police agency "KGB," who is the head of the Moscow Psychiatric Research Institute, openly shouted: "If I say someone is a schizophrenic, then he is a schizophrenic." This is truly a typical case of fabricating charges to frame someone!
The Soviet revisionist ruling group locked healthy people who opposed their fascist rule in psychiatric hospitals and subjected them to cruel persecution, which has drawn strong attacks and condemnation from the Soviet people and world public opinion, becoming a great scandal like Hitler's concentration camps. It is precisely under these circumstances, where they are pointed at by a thousand fingers, that Pravda attempted to lavishly publicize this Italian incident to divert the attention of the Soviet people and cover up its own crimes. However, this publicity trick of Pravda is completely futile. As long as the Soviet people compare this report in Pravda with the Soviet reality, they will see the fascist face and cunning methods of the Soviet revisionist traitor group more clearly.
May 15, 1976, People's Daily