Prone to Escape
19 hrs. 20 min.
Language
Russian
Author
Yury Vetokhin
Author
Yury Vetokhin
Narrator
Roman Volkov
Narrator
Roman Volkov
Description
The author describes several unsuccessful attempts to escape the USSR in the 1960s–70s, followed by arrest and confinement in specialized psychiatric hospitals, where those who did not want to be “reeducated” and cooperate with Soviet power were sent—even under the threat of being sentenced under the “shooting” clause of Article No. 56.
The state spared no expense on maintaining entire institutions of punitive psychiatry. To change the personality of defiant “escapees from the Soviet paradise,” in the “psychiatry ward” inhuman torture was used.
Yuri Vetoihin managed to survive this hell only thanks to his faith in God, immense willpower, and the desire to leave the USSR at all costs—in order to fight communism and tell the truth about what he endured.
On December 9, 1979, Vetoihin succeeded in escaping through the porthole of the steamship Ilyich, which was on a cruise along the Japanese and Philippine islands, and swimming to reach the Indonesian island of Bacan.
The audiobook has been recorded and made freely available by order of the Memorial Educational and Historical-Cultural Center “Beloye Delo.”
The state spared no expense on maintaining entire institutions of punitive psychiatry. To change the personality of defiant “escapees from the Soviet paradise,” in the “psychiatry ward” inhuman torture was used.
Yuri Vetoihin managed to survive this hell only thanks to his faith in God, immense willpower, and the desire to leave the USSR at all costs—in order to fight communism and tell the truth about what he endured.
On December 9, 1979, Vetoihin succeeded in escaping through the porthole of the steamship Ilyich, which was on a cruise along the Japanese and Philippine islands, and swimming to reach the Indonesian island of Bacan.
The audiobook has been recorded and made freely available by order of the Memorial Educational and Historical-Cultural Center “Beloye Delo.”
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