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See: [[Atheist hospitals in Cuba]]
See: [[Atheist hospitals in Cuba]]
=== Atheist mental hospitals in the Soviet Union ===
The former [[Soviet Union]] had [[state atheism]]. Mental hospitals in the Soviet Union were used to persecute believers.<ref>[http://www.roca.org/OA/5/5e.htm The Cry of the New Martyrs - Psychiatric “Treatment” of Christians]</ref> In the Soviet Union, many [[Orthodox Christianity|Orthodox]] priests and laymen experienced religious persecution in the form of torture and being sent to prison camps, [[Atheism and forced labor|labor camps]] or mental hospitals.<ref name="ReferenceA">Father Arseny 1893-1973 Priest, Prisoner, Spiritual Father. Introduction pg. vi - 1. St Vladimir's Seminary Press ISBN 0-88141-180-9</ref><ref name="lalex">''Lyudmila Alexeyeva, History of dissident movement in the USSR, Memorial society, in Russian''</ref><ref name="gins">[http://www.index.org.ru/journal/11/ginzburg.html A.Ginzbourg, "Only one year", "Index" Magazine, in Russian]</ref><ref name="washingtonpost.com">The Washington Post Anti-Communist Priest Gheorghe Calciu-Dumitreasa By Patricia Sullivan Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, November 26, 2006; Page C09 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/25/AR2006112500783.html</ref> See also: [[Atheistic communism and torture]]
The psychiatric hospital Serbsky State Scientific Center for Social and Forensic Psychiatry, formerly called the Serbsky Institute, was used during the Soviet Union era to engage in “psychiatric terror” against political dissidents.<ref>Korotenko, Ada; Alikina, Natalia [Ада Коротенко, Наталия Аликина] (2002). Советская психиатрия: Заблуждения и умысел [Soviet psychiatry: fallacies and wilfulness] (in Russian). Kiev: Издательство «Сфера» [Publishing house "Sphere"]. ISBN 978-966-7841-36-2.</ref>
== See also ==
== See also ==