Word: grigorenko
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...should we find it so strange that General Grigorenko [June 4] was considered insane by Soviet psychiatrists? Every society sets its own standards for "normalcy," and anyone who deviates is sick. It happens in the U.S. all the time, and no one is alarmed. In Iran, the Ayatullah Khomeini is presently quite sane as he orders political murder in the name of justice. Sanity is relative...
Former Red Army Major General Pyotr Grigorenko got the treatment twice...
...Grigorenko, now 70, need not have worried. The old soldier was stripped of Soviet citizenship in 1978, and found asylum (political, that is) in the U.S. Reich and colleagues, including Psychiatrists Alan Stone of Harvard and Lawrence Kolb of Columbia, conducted their elaborate mental and neurological tests anyway. The verdict: the tough, bald-pated general is as solid as the Kremlin's walls, with nary a crack in his mental armor...
...annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in Chicago, Reich's team provided fascinating glimpses of the video-taped examination of Grigorenko (Q. "Why did you [engage in dissident acts] if you thought you might be shot?" A. "What's the sense of living one extra year if you continue in the fraud of not facing things?"). Though A.P.A. President-elect Stone sent his evaluation on to Soviet Psychiatrist Andrei Snezhnevsky, who had encouraged the American tests, the findings are not likely to end Soviet psychiatric abuses. Snezhnevsky dismissed the results as a "misdiagnosis," a consequence...
Moroz, who yesterday attributed his release to a Soviet desire for a SALT II agreement and to Harvard's offer, met with former Soviet Gen. Peter Grigorenko last night and will meet with President Carter within a few weeks, Snylyk added. In addition to Grigorenko, "a major dissident figure" who has been in the United States since 1977. Moroz met with a figure whose name could not be released, Snylyk said...