Andrew Lobaczewski - Political Ponerology: A Science on the Nature of Evil Adjusted for Political Purposes
abused by the Soviet regime. But his former assistants now admit, that he
knew “all too well” what was going on. The only problem is, that those assis-
tants still talk about it only on the sly. They work at the Moscow institutes
where the scientific successors of Snezhnevsky are still in charge. This clique
of about thirty or forty psychiatrists at the time controlled all the important
institutes for scientific research in Moscow and this is practically the same up
to now. The consequence of Snezhnevsky’s ideas, apart from the fact that
they were used as a means of repression, is that psychiatry in the former
Soviet Union “is confronted with a gap of about fifty years”. Western litera-
ture on psychiatry was forbidden in the Soviet Union, psychiatrists who stood
up against the political abuse of their science ended up behind bars or were
themselves declared to be “insidiously schizophrenic” . “A Mess in Psychia-
try”, an interview with Robert van Voren, General Secretary of Geneva Ini-
tiative on Psychiatry, published in the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant on
August 9, 1997 [Editor’s note.]
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This accumulation of proper knowledge would, within a
very short time, enable the undertaking of investigations whose
meaning we already understand. Missing elements and insuffi-
ciently investigated questions would be complemented and
deepened by means of the appropriate detailed research. The
diagnosis of the pathocratic state of affairs would then be
elaborated within the first dozen or so years of the formation of
the pathocracy, especially if the latter is imposed. The basis of
the deductive rationale would be significantly wider than any-
thing the author can present here, and would be illustrated by
means of a rich body of analytical and statistical material.
Once transmitted to world opinion, such a diagnosis would
quickly become incorporated into it that opinion, forcing naive
political and propaganda doctrines out of societal conscious-
ness. It would reach the nations that were the objects of the
pathocratic empire’s expansionist intentions. This would render
the usefulness of any such propagandized ideology as a
pathocratic Trojan horse doubtful at best.
In spite of differences among them, other countries with
normal human systems would be united by characteristic soli-
darity in the defense of an understood danger, similar to the
solidarity linking normal people living under pathocratic rule.
This consciousness, popularized in the countries affected by
this phenomenon, would simultaneously reinforce psychologi-
cal resistance on the part of normal human societies and furnish
them with new measures of self defense.
Can any pathocratic empire risk permitting such a possibil-
ity?
In times when the above-mentioned disciplines are develop-
ing swiftly in many countries, the problem of preventing such a
psychiatric threat becomes a matter of “to be or not to be” for
pathocracy. Any possibility of such a situation emerging must
thus be staved off prophylactically and skillfully, both within
and without the empire. At the same time, the empire is able to
find effective preventive measures thanks to its consciousness
of being different as well as that specific psychological knowl-
edge of psychopaths with which we are already familiar, par-
tially reinforced by academic knowledge.
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Both inside and outside the boundaries of countries affected
by the above-mentioned phenomenon, a purposeful and con-
scious system of control, terror, and diversion is thus set to
work.
Any scientific papers published under such governments or
imported from abroad must be monitored to ascertain that they
do not contain any data which could be harmful to the pathoc-
racy. Specialists with superior talent become the objects of
blackmail and malicious control. This of course causes the
results to become inferior with reference to these areas of sci-
ence.
The entire operation must of course be managed in such a
way as to avoid attracting the attention of public opinion in
countries with normal human structures. The effects of such a
“bad break” could be too far-reaching. This explains why peo-
ple caught doing investigative work in this area are destroyed
without a sound and suspicious persons are forced abroad to
become the objects of appropriately organized harassment
campaigns there.112
Battles are thus being fought on secret fronts which may be
reminiscent of the Second World War. The soldiers and leaders
fighting in various theaters were not aware that their fate de-
pended on the outcome of that other war, waged by scientists
and other soldiers, whose goal was preventing the Germans
from producing the atom bomb. The Allies won that battle, and
the United States became the first to possess this lethal weapon.
For the present, however, the West keeps losing scientific and
political battles on this new secret front. Lone fighters are
looked upon as odd, denied assistance, or forced to work hard
for their bread. Meanwhile, the ideological Trojan horse keeps
invading new countries.
An examination of the methodology of such battles, both on
the internal and the external fronts, points to that specific
pathocratic knowledge so difficult to comprehend in the light
of the natural language of concepts. In order to be able to con-
trol people and those relatively non-popularized areas of sci-
112 This is also why !obaczewski was deprived of the data he had assembled
over so many years that would have supported the information presented in
this book. [Editor’s note.]
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ence, one must know, or be able to sense, what is going on and
which fragments of psychopathology are most dangerous. The
examiner of this methodology thus also becomes aware of the
boundaries and imperfections of this self-knowledge and prac-
tice, i.e. the other side’s weaknesses, errors, and gaffes, and
may manage to take advantage of them.
In nations with pathocratic systems, supervision over scien-
tific and cultural organizations is assigned to a special depart-
ment of especially trusted people, a “Nameless Office” com-
posed almost entirely of relatively intelligent persons who be-
tray characteristic psychopathic traits. These people must be
capable of completing their academic studies, albeit sometimes
by forcing examiners to issue generous evaluations. Their tal-
ents are usually inferior to those of average students, especially
regarding psychological science. In spite of that, they are re-
warded for their services by obtaining academic degrees and
positions and are allowed to represent their country’s scientific
community abroad. As especially trusted individuals, they are
allowed to not participate in local meetings of the party, and
even to avoid joining it entirely. In case of need, they might
then pass for non-party. In spite of that, these scientific and
cultural superintendents are well known to the society of nor-
mal people, who learn the art of differentiation rather quickly.
They are not always properly distinguished from agents of the
political police; although they consider themselves to be in a
better class than the latter, they must nevertheless cooperate
with them.
We often meet with such people abroad, in the countries of
normal people, where various foundations and institutes give
them scientific grants with the conviction that they are thereby
assisting the development of proper knowledge in countries
under “communist” governments. These benefactors do not
realize that they are rendering a disservice to such science and
to real scientists by allowing the supervisors to attain a certain
semi-authentic authority, and by allowing them to become
more familiar with whatever they shall later deem to be dan-
gerous.
After all, those people shall later have the power to permit
someone to take a doctorate, embark upon a scientific career,
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achieve academic tenure, and become promoted. Very medio-
cre scientists themselves, they attempt to knock down more
talented persons, governed both by self-interest and that typical
jealousy which characterizes a pathocrat’s attitude toward nor-
mal people. They will be the ones monitoring scientific papers
for their “proper ideology” and attempting to ensure that a
good specialist will be denied the scientific literature he
needs.113
Controls are exceptionally malicious and treacherous in the
psychological sciences in particular, for reasons now under-
standable to us. Written and unwritten lists are compiled for
subjects that may not be taught, and corresponding directives
are issued to appropriately distort other subjects. This list is so
vast in the area of psychology that nothing remains of this sci-
ence except a skeleton picked bare of anything that might be
subtle or penetrating.
A psychiatrist’s required curriculum contains neither the
minimal knowledge from the areas of general, developmental,
and clinical psychology, nor the basic skills in psychotherapy.
Due to such a state of affairs, the most mediocre or privileged
of physicians become a psychiatrist after a course of study
lasting only weeks. This opens the door of psychiatric careers
to individuals who are by nature inclined to serving the
pathocratic authority, and it has fateful repercussions upon the
level of the treatment. It later permits psychiatry to be abused
for purposes for which it should never be used.114
113 Based on many reports of the past 5 years, it seems that the United States
is well on its way to having a similar system. In fact, careful analysis indi-
cates that such a system has been in place for some time now. [Editor’s note.]
114 In Ukraine brain surgery is being performed on schizophrenics. “Ukraine
is confronted with a lack of money, which means no money to buy medi-
cines, so they look for alternative methods of treatment. Then there are psy-
chiatrists in Dnepropetrovsk who think: suppose we cut away a piece of
brain, then we can get rid of schizophrenia cheaply.’ Van Voren imagines
what they might think: ‘Maybe we’ll even get the Nobel prize! One can never
know!.’
“ ‘On the other hand’, he continues, ‘they know just as well that this kind of
operation is not really accepted. So these schizophrenics become supposedly
epileptic, since in extreme cases of epilepsy surgery might be performed.
Under this pretext they cut away pieces of brain.’ The Institute of Neurosur-
gery in Kiev goes even further: there, brain tissue of aborted embryos is
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Since they are undereducated, these psychologists then
prove helpless in the face of many human problems, especially
in cases where detailed knowledge is needed. Such knowledge
must then be acquired on one’s own, a feat not everyone is able
to manage.
Such behavior carries in its wake a good deal of damage
and human injustice in areas of life which have nothing what-
soever to do with politics. Unfortunately, however, such behav-
ior is necessary from the pathocrat’s point of view in order to
prevent these dangerous sciences from jeopardizing the exis-
tence of a system they consider the best of all possible worlds.
Specialists in the areas of psychology and psychopathology
would find an analysis of this system of prohibitions and rec-
ommendations to be highly interesting. This makes it possible
implanted in the brains of mentally disabled people. ‘They say they can cure
disabled people that way. Of course nothing happens or their situation even
worsens, but they ask thousands of dollars for it.’
“In Ukrainian psychiatry insulin is being used as a tranquillizer, i.e. it is
administered in such doses, that the patient lapses into a coma. ‘A kill or cure
remedy. It is being applied in high doses, while diabetics are dying because
there is not enough insulin. Nonsense, absolute nonsense.’ He continues:
‘Electroshocks, on large scale.’ In the Central Psychiatric Institution in Kiev
they are given a dozen a time, without anaesthesia or muscle-relaxant drugs.
Once patients have been given a clean bill of health, they can get another
dozen of shocks on the day of departure: ‘something like a severance pay.
And all of this is happening now’, concludes Van Voren, ‘it is happening
today, at this very moment.’
“In Russian newspapers one can freely write about the political abuse of
psychiatry. But officially the doctrine of Snezhnevsky was never revoked.
Most psychiatrists in Moscow still even believe in it. ‘As a consequence, no
structural change is possible in Moscow. Even now people who hold a posi-
tion at one of those institutes and who want to talk in public about the abuse
of psychiatry are being told that they should better shut up or find themselves
a job elsewhere. This way much of the old power is maintained.’
“Under the pretext of ‘progressing schizophrenia’ dissidentss are still being
locked up in the former Soviet Union, but mainly in the provinces and it is
not so ‘easy’ to do anymore, says Van Voren.
People who are unwelcome to the local authorities might land in an institu-
tion, but nowadays there are organisations for human rights and media who
can get them out. In Turkmenistan it still happens officially. ‘That is a mu-
seum of the old Stalinist Soviet Union and there the theory has been re-
