In the publication, he described his confinement in Soviet psychiatric hospitals.

Obviously, going to a Soviet hospital was an impossibility, with all the questions that would be asked, all the reports filed.

It also plans to visit four Soviet mental hospitals, including two so-called special psychiatric hospitals that have been under police control.

In Soviet mental hospitals, used to hold political prisoners, very unpleasant medications were given to these "patients" as a means of punishment.

If agreement can be reached, American psychiatrists hope to visit Soviet mental hospitals early next year.

Ms. Mercer said 50 to 100 people were held in Soviet psychiatric hospitals for political or religious reasons.

He died in 1991 in a Soviet hospital, presumably from the effects of drug and alcohol abuse.

He was hospitalized again on April 3 in a Soviet military hospital outside Berlin.

You'd be kept in a Soviet hospital until it was healed - six weeks at least.

Soviet hospitals have long been criticized for being crowded, poorly equipped and often unsanitary.