Viktor Nekipelov

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Aleksandrovich and the family name is Nekipelov.

Viktor Aleksandrovich Nekipelov
Виктор Александрович Некипелов
Anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda (Article 70 of the RSFSR Criminal Code)
Criminal penaltytwo years in a labour camp (1st term), seven years in a labour camp and five years in internal exile (2nd term)
SpouseNina Komarova
AwardsOrder of the Cross of Vytis

Viktor Aleksandrovich Nekipelov (

Soviet dissident,[6]: 85  and a member of the Moscow Helsinki Group.[7][8][9]: 265  He spent about nine years in prison for his participation in the Moscow Helsinki Group.[10]

Early life

Nekipelov was born to a Soviet family of workers of the

Moscow Literature Institute.[12] He worked as a pharmacist.[13][14]

Dissident

In 1973, he was arrested for "spreading of known false fabrications that is damaging the Soviet political system" (Article 190-1 of the RSFSR Criminal Code).

Serbsky Institute of Forensic Psychiatry for psychiatric evaluation, which lasted from 15 January to 12 March 1974, was judged sane (which he was), tried, and sentenced to two years' imprisonment.[3] In 1976, he published in samizdat his book Institute of Fools: Notes on the Serbsky Institute[16]: 147  based on his personal experience at Psychiatric Hospital of the Serbsky Institute[17]: 86  and translated into English in 1980.[18][19]
: 312 

In October 1977, Nekipelov joined the Moscow Helsinki Group.[12] In 1977, the joint book From Yellow Silence: The Collection of Memoirs and Articles by Political Prisoners of Psychiatric Hospitals by Nekipelov and Alexander Podrabinek was completed.[20]

After publishing Institute of Fools, he was sentenced to the maximum punishment for "

anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda" of seven years in a labour camp and then five years in internal exile.[3] As Zavoisky and Krylovsky wrote, Nekipelov developed cancer caused by his permanent poisoning in a prison camp.[21] On 20 March 1983, Nekipelov and 9 other political prisoners in their letter to US President of Ronald Reagan sought his aid in urging inspection of Soviet camps.[22]

Along with Arina Ginzburg, Malva Landa,

Baltic republics to determine their political destiny.[23]

Released in 1987, he emigrated to France where he died in 1989.

In 1992, the selection of his verses was published by Memorial society.[24]

On his book

In his book Institute of Fools, he wrote compassionately, engagingly, and observantly of the doctors and other patients; most of the latter were ordinary criminals feigning insanity in order to be sent to a mental hospital, because hospital was a "cushy number" as against prison camps.

Soviet punitive psychiatry, a mirror that psychiatrists always need to look into.[11] However, according to Malcolm Lader, this book as an indictment of the Serbsky Institute hardly rises above tittle-tattle and gossip, and Nekipelov destroys his own credibility by presenting no real evidence but invariably putting the most sinister connotation on events.[3]

After reading the book,

Dnepropetrovsk, Kazan, Blagoveshchensk, and that is not all.[26] Their life was transformed to unimaginable horror with daily tortures by forced administration of drugs, beatings and other forms of punishment.[26] Many went crazy, could not endure what was happening to them, some even died during the "treatment" (for example, a miner from Donetsk Alexey Nikitin).[26] Many books and memoirs are written about the life in the psychiatric Gulag and every time when reading them a shiver seizes us.[26]

References

  1. ISBN 978-5-98550-022-6
    .
  2. ^ a b "Писатели-диссиденты: биобиблиографические статьи (продолжение)" [Dissident writers: bibliographic articles (continuance)]. Новое литературное обозрение [New Literary Review] (in Russian) (67). 2004.
  3. ^
    PMC 1713856
    .
  4. ^ Mydans, Seth (29 July 1985). "Soviet human rights battle: only isolated voices remain". The New York Times.
  5. ISBN 978-0-8229-3622-0
    .
  6. ISBN 978-0-87395-975-9
    .
  7. ^ "Political prisoners seek Reagan's aid in urging inspection of Soviet camps". The Ukrainian Weekly. Vol. LI, no. 12. 20 March 1983. Archived from the original on 22 June 2016. Retrieved 11 September 2015.
  8. S2CID 159662308
    .
  9. ISBN 978-0-8014-4731-0
    .
  10. ^ "Soviets allowing dissident to leave". The Gadsden Times. 27 September 1987.
  11. ^ a b c d Савенко, Юрий (2005). ""Институт дураков" Виктора Некипелова" [Institute of Fools by Viktor Nekipelov]. Nezavisimiy Psikhiatricheskiy Zhurnal (4).
  12. ^ a b "Nekipelov Viktor Alexandrovich" (Biography) (in Russian). Moscow Helsinki Group.
  13. ISSN 0262-4079. {{cite journal}}: |first1= has generic name (help
    )
  14. S2CID 144735407
    .
  15. ISBN 978-5771200262
    .
  16. ISBN 978-0-465-06488-5
    .
  17. ISBN 978-0-7619-3624-4
    .
  18. ISBN 978-0-374-17703-4
    .
  19. ISBN 978-1-55050-134-6
    .
  20. ^ Nekipelov, Viktor; Podrabinek, Alexander (1977). Из жёлтого безмолвия: Сборник воспоминаний и статей политзаключенных психиатрических больниц [From yellow silence: the collection of memoirs and articles by political prisoners of psychiatric hospitals] (in Russian). Moscow.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  21. ^ Zavoisky, Konstantin; Krylovsky, Vladimir (2009). Тайно приговоренные. Как убивали члена московской хельсинской группы Виктора Некипелова [The secretly sentenced. How member of the Moscow Helsinki Group Viktor Nekipelov was being killed]. Mosty [Мосты] (in Russian) (24): 219.
  22. ^ "Political prisoners seek Reagan's aid in urging inspection of Soviet camps". The Ukrainian Weekly. Vol. LI, no. 12. 20 March 1983. Archived from the original on 22 June 2016. Retrieved 11 September 2015.
  23. doi:10.1080/01629778100000251
    .
  24. ^ Некипелов, Виктор (1992). Стихи: Избранное [Verses: selection]. Издательство "Memorial".
  25. ^ Пехтерев В.А. (2013). Ода Институту Сербского [Ode to the Serbsky Institute]. Новости медицины и фармации [Medicine and Pharmacy News] (in Russian). 14 (465). Retrieved 8 February 2014.
  26. ^ a b c d Ворен, Роберт ван (2013). Отзыв на статью об Институте Сербского [The response to an article on the Serbsky Institute]. Вестник Ассоциации психиатров Украины [The Herald of the Ukrainian Psychiatric Association] (in Russian) (5).

Publications

Social and political journalism

Poetry

  • Nekipelov, Viktor (1966). Между Марсом и Венерой [Between Mars and Venus] (in Russian). Uzhhorod: Karpaty.
  • Nekipelov, Viktor (1991). Стихи [Verses] (in Russian). Paris: La Presse Libre.
  • Nekipelov, Viktor (1992). Стихи: Избранное [Verses: selection] (in Russian). Boston: Publishing House "Memorial".

Further reading

Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Viktor_Nekipelov&oldid=1217471302"