Russian historian who exposed Stalin's crimes faces enforced psychiatric testing

[Sanguine]

By Andrew Osborn

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian historian whose exposure of Soviet leader Josef Stalin's crimes angered state officials is due to begin enforced psychiatric testing this week amid fears he will be falsely declared insane, his lawyer said on Tuesday.

Yuri Dmitriev, 61, is on trial in northwest Russia on charges brought by state prosecutors of involving his adopted daughter, then 11, in child pornography, of illegally possessing "the main elements of" a firearm, and of depravity involving a minor.

Some of Russia's leading cultural figures say Dmitriev was framed because his focus on Stalin's crimes - he found a mass grave with up to 9,000 bodies dating from the Soviet dictator's Great Terror in the 1930s - jars with the latter-day Kremlin narrative that Russia must not be ashamed of its past....

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/russian-historian-exposed-stalins-crimes-faces-enforced-psychiatric-133749392.html

Some things never go out of style.

[endicom]

Some things never go out of style.

They get Bandyed about.

[Oceander]

This is why the democrats’ attempts to medicalize their political disagreements with Trump - by arguing Trump is mentally unfit - are so pernicious. 

[Sanguine]

This is why the democrats’ attempts to medicalize their political disagreements with Trump - by arguing Trump is mentally unfit - are so pernicious.

Exactly.  You could almost imagine that both efforts have a similar source or ideology.

[GtHawk]

Some things never go out of style.

On the face of it the headline doesn't sound so bad,  does that mean hours of being forced to decipher Rorschach ink blots? OK, probably it means testing by electro shock therapy or something equally modern and non invasive.

[goatprairie]

Exactly.  You could almost imagine that both efforts have a similar source or ideology.

I well remember the assault on Barry Goldwater in '64 by the medically mental community. The same things thrown at Trump were thrown at Goldwater with grinning approval from the media which was just as liberal back then.   But there was no internet or conservative talk radio to combat the liberal media attacks.
According to the media,  his first day in office Goldwater was going to start WWIII and nuke everything.
As it turned out Goldwater was probably the sanest man in congress. He would have lost anyway, but his rejection of the '64 Civil Rights bill doomed him to a bad defeat in the election.
Looking back now it's a shame Goldwater wasn't elected.

[Bigun]

I well remember the assault on Barry Goldwater in '64 by the medically mental community. The same things thrown at Trump were thrown at Goldwater with grinning approval from the media which was just as liberal back then.   But there was no internet or conservative talk radio to combat the liberal media attacks.
According to the media,  his first day in office Goldwater was going to start WWIII and nuke everything.
As it turned out Goldwater was probably the sanest man in congress. He would have lost anyway, but his rejection of the '64 Civil Rights bill doomed him to a bad defeat in the election.
Looking back now it's a shame Goldwater wasn't elected.

I agree!  In fact, I have contemplated writing one of those alternative history books based on Goldwater having won in 1964 and where we might now be as a result.

[edpc]

Long before the Trump train, there was.....Strelnikov!