In the article are analyzed the sides of some political practices of the Soviet past such as
the promotion of antireligious activity, inhuman and degrading treatments of detainees, the use
of psychiatry for political purposes etc.
Thus it is specified that the communist authorities promoted an extensive defamation
campaign of religion through mass-media. For the first time in the history of Bessarabian Orthodox
Church, churches and graves profanation has been done. Many priests were arrested and
killed in prison, others were shot at the Soviet withdrawal, and the majorities were deported with
their families in remote regions of the USSR.
A special chapter of the Soviet history presents the relationship with Nazi Germany. In
this respect, it specifies that among the crimes of Hitler regime there is nothing that would not
have analogy in the Soviet history, and the crimes of the Stalinist regime, due to the cruelty and
proportions are truly without precedent.
Another component of the repressive policy of the Soviet period was the use of psychiatry
for political purposes. A lot of people were forcibly interned in psychiatric hospitals for their political
beliefs or simply because they demanded their rights. Healthy and lucid people were treated
with psychotropic drugs in doses exceeding several times the proper norm, until they were not able
to judge. Thus, the political repression in the form of hospitalization in psychiatric hospitals has
been a recurrent practice of the Soviet regime until the last decade of existence of the USSR.
In conclusion, it points out that totalitarian regimes represent the negation of human
dignity and violation of all fundamental rights characteristic for a society built on democracy
and respect for the rule of law.