Прошу прощение за длинный "оффтопик" -- а я хочу ответить на одно утверждение, предложенное Annix:

В то же время, в США лоботомия (вырезание части мозга) за коммунистические убеждения была массовой. СССР был первой страной в мире, которая запретила лоботомию.
По-видимому, лоботомии получились такими эффективными, что КП в Америке совершенно забыли об этой массовой трагедии!!!

Maybe I should say that in English, too, in case the sarcasm doesn't come through in Russian:

Apparently, the lobotomies worked so well that the CPUSA completely forgot about this mass tragedy!!

Seriously, it's true that в США лоботомия была массовой (from Googling, I find that the estimated number of lobotomies in the US was as high as 50,000 -- most of them between the late 1940s and the mid 1950s). It's also possible that some individuals really were lobotomized за коммунистические убеждения.

Однако я очень сомневаюсь that anything like a "mass number" of patients were lobotomized for Communist beliefs.

And the reason I doubt this is that I honestly can't remember ever hearing this accusation from the American Left -- the very people who have documented in great deal the harrassments and abuses of the "Red Scare" and "McCarthyism."

The most frequent accusations that the Left makes about the McCarthy era is that the government engaged in illegal wiretapping and other forms of spying on citizens; that personal reputations were slandered; that countless careers were ruined.

What they DON'T claim, however, is that significant numbers of Communist sympathizers had their brains turned into "яичница-болтунья" with a large needle through the eye-socket!

And before any thinks "oh, the government covered up the truth", I should point out that many other cases of abusive and unethical medical practices by the US government HAVE been widely reported and discussed in academic studies, in documentary films, in fictionalized dramas, and in high-school textbooks.

For example, the forced sterilizations of the retarded and psychiatric patients during the "Eugenics" mania (mainly before WW2, but some forced sterilizations continued into the 1960s); the notorious Tuskegee syphilis study, and of course the horrible episode of the "Lobotomy fad" in American psychiatry.

But as far as I know, nearly all of the victims of lobotomies -- and most lobotomized patients can truly be called жертвы -- were psychiatric patients with real органические заболевания. But only in rare cases involving severe schizophrenia did the lobotomy procedure actually improve their condition. Many lobotomized people had relatively minor psychiatric problems (before the surgery, but worse problems afterward!), and poor patients in state-funded "charity hospitals" were possibly more likely to get the surgery than patients from middle-class or wealthy families. (There were exceptions to this: the super-rich Kennedys had JFK's sister Rosemary lobotomized at age 23, which left her with the IQ of a potato, basically.)

In fact, there really was a "political angle" to lobotomies in the USA, but it was related to the politics of "cost control" at government-run psychiatric facilities, and not with anti-Communism.