The path to dissidents

With Vyacheslav Istunov, we repeatedly talked on various reasons in the first half of the 1990s.

I knew that he had a dissident past, but did not delve into the details. And then he came across an interview with him , an interesting analysis of the process of turning the “normal” Soviet man into a dissident who rejects the most obvious - the undoubted advantages of the Soviet system over everything that was, is and will be - and therefore qualified punitive psychiatry as a schizophrenic.

The technology of ripening of protest thinking is perfectly shown as a result of processes that can be attributed to cognitive dissonance: facts that contradict each other lead to a inquisitive mind to the conclusion that the ends are not converging, that someone is fooling someone, and therefore it is necessary to change the coordinate system in which the world is described.

Very interesting material . I recommend it!

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