CIA Archives: Soviet Psychological Torture Methods - Former Moscow Prison Inmate (1956)

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Psychological torture is a type of torture that relies primarily on psychological effects, and only secondarily on any physical harm inflicted. Although not all psychological torture involves the use of physical violence, there is a continuum between psychological torture and physical torture. The two are often used in conjunction with one another, and often overlap in practice, with the fear and pain induced by physical torture often resulting in long-term psychological effects, and many forms of psychological torture involving some form of pain or coercion.

Many forms of psychological torture methods attempt to destroy the subject's normal self-image by removing them from any kind of control over their environment, creating a state of learned helplessness, psychological regression and depersonalization. Other techniques include enforced nudity and head shaving, sleep deprivation, hooding and other forms of sensory deprivation and forcing the subject to adopt stress positions.

A strictly fear-inducing method is the mock execution. Various threats operate on the same fear-inducing principle.

Another is indirect torture, which preys on the victims affection for and loyalty to a partner, relative, friend, comrade in arms et cetera, whose real pain induces vicarious suffering in the targeted psychological victim, who is thus loaded with guilt but spared physical harm that might endanger his ability to comply.

While psychological torture may not leave any lasting physical damage—indeed, this is often one of the motivations for using psychological rather than physical torture—it can result in similar levels of permanent mental damage to its victims.

It has been alleged that some psychological torture methods may have been devised by, or in conjunction with, doctors and psychologists.

The United States has been accused of making extensive use of psychological torture techniques at Guantanamo Bay and other sites subsequent to the 9/11 attacks. Many other countries have been accused of using psychological torture, including Iran. In 1979 the European Human Rights Commission found the United Kingdom government guilty of using psychological torture on IRA political detainees in Northern Ireland.

Torture was widely practiced by the Soviet secret police during the Stalinism era to extract confessions from suspects often called enemies of the people. The use of torture was authorized by the Central Committee of the Communist Party and personally by Joseph Stalin. During the Doctor's Plot, Stalin ordered falsely accused physicians to be tortured "to death."

The Doctors' plot (Russian language: дело врачей [doctors' affair], врачи-вредители [doctors-saboteurs] or врачи-убийцы [doctors-killers]) was the most dramatic anti-Jewish episode in the Soviet Union during Joseph Stalin's regime, involving the "unmasking" of a group of prominent Moscow doctors, predominantly Jews, as conspiratorial assassins of Soviet leaders. This was accompanied by show trials and anti-Semitic propaganda in state-run mass media. Scores of Soviet Jews were promptly dismissed from their jobs, arrested, sent to the Gulag, or executed.

After the death of Joseph Stalin in March 1953, the new Soviet leadership declared that the case was fabricated.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_torture

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[Laughingblades]

@SwarthySkinnedOne The methods of coercion and mental manipulation depicted in video are no where near on the level of the mind control experiments in East Germany though, in this Red Scare propaganda, he has a moment of weakness, how much more effective would it have been if he were subjected to a week of sensory deprivation, with psychotropics blinders muffles and gloves. You know our own government uses such methods of torture now, you can make someone say anything you want

[SwarthySkinnedOne]

@L

admirably overcame in his 70 day ordeal was the same unsympathetic yet seemingly quite effective ticket used 2 coerce the 15 other "guest" to KNUCKLE UNDER! 15 out of 16? Not bad:-? Yet this to you is hardly impressive! Oh Please!!! I've a hunch that just these 15 (u think were weak) would shamefully outlast U and 99.99% of today's Inet and iPad gen. Hell, you creampuffs would'ave totally cracked up & confessed & signed ANYTHING in less than 48hrs under the very same test!

[SwarthySkinnedOne]

@L

"No thank you" is aptly put and exeedingly all to the point! Now I HOPE your incredibly High IQ (you've implied having in an poor attempt to slyly make me look backwards & dense) will grant you comprehension powers to APPRECIATE the relative nature of it all. YES, RELATIVE, is what I just said! IF u were at least 1/1000th of being mentally bright & stunningly alert u unjustifiably estimate yourself to be to pay better attention, u would have learned what Mr. Z. Stypulkowski

[Laughingblades]

@SwarthySkinnedOne No thank you, just because I'm impressed by the intent and methodology and appreciate the scientific and intellectual progress made from the experiment in east germany doesn't mean I approve of the methods or would ever willingly participate in them.

Most of the same practices are still in play in the United States today, but now controlled by corporations, and for profit, not science.

Anyway you get pretty incoherent after that and assuming I'm a man

[SwarthySkinnedOne]

@Laughingblades

Spoken like a Mr. know-it-all, huh Super Man? Let's throw you into the same conditions that this vid renacted (however the real deal), and see how well you'll hold up to prove your point! Hell, all they got to do is deprive you of access to your Iphone, mp3 player, and fb activities and you'll fracture to smashed pieces in nothing flat like a saltine cracker under the impact of a falling lead brick, you little milk & water pampered spoiled hypocritcal wuss.

[Sbonvivan]

Zombi



[Crazyjohny16]

arrow to the knee

[Laughingblades]

Hardly impressive at all the East German psychological torture methods were much better and had clear discernible goals in the pursuit of knowledge and the exploration of how mailable the mind can be, and generally, well, just what this thing we call a person actually is.

[merseywhogirl]

@votumseparatum1 That's my point, one is as bad as the other. That was the nature of the game was it not? And it certainly was a game. Todays i no different, only the players 'actors' are! cheers for replying :)

[votumseparatum1]

@merseywhogirl While you are right, pointing the finger at another is not a good counterargument. ALL intelligence services are guilty of murder, treason, destabilization, etc. etc. ALL governments have blood on their hands. This is about the Soviets, not the CIA.