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Word: cyberneticists (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Police Asylum. Even worse than the camps are the prison psychiatric institutions. Dissenters are regularly dispatched to these asylums without trial, for indefinite periods and with no possibility of appeal. A typical case is that of Leonid Plyushch, a cyberneticist whose aspirations for Ukranian cultural freedom led to charges of "creeping schizophrenia." He has been given massive doses of depressant drugs. After two years in one of the U.S.S.R.'s seven police-run lunatic asylums, the noted scientist has been driven to a state of mental and physical collapse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOVIET UNION: The Prisoners of Conscience | 12/1/1975 | See Source »

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