"It's a purely Soviet procedure. Make accusations and then end things by locking someone up in a psychiatric facility."

Does this remind you of the Democrats' attempt to declare Donald Trump unfit because he's literally insane?  HERE  HERE  HERE  HERE  HERE

It should.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian historian whose exposure of Soviet leader Josef Stalin's crimes angered state officials is due to begin enforced psychiatric testing this week amid fears he will be falsely declared insane, his lawyer said on Tuesday.

Yuri Dmitriev, 61, is on trial in northwest Russia on charges brought by state prosecutors of involving his adopted daughter, then 11, in child pornography, of illegally possessing "the main elements of" a firearm, and of depravity involving a minor.

Some of Russia's leading cultural figures say Dmitriev was framed because his focus on Stalin's crimes - he found a mass grave with up to 9,000 bodies dating from the Soviet dictator's Great Terror in the 1930s - jars with the latter-day Kremlin narrative that Russia must not be ashamed of its past.

It's a classic for the Communist Left ... in Russia and in the U.S.

"Perhaps if they can't convict him (of child pornography) they need to declare him insane," the lawyer said. "It's a purely Soviet procedure. Make accusations and then end things by locking someone up in a psychiatric facility."