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Psikhushka logo #10101) Soviet phraseology
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Psikhushka

Psikhushka logo #21000 Psikhushka (психушка; psʲɪˈxuʂkə) is a Russian ironic diminutive for psychiatric hospital. In Russia, the word entered everyday vocabulary. It has been occasionally used in English since the Soviet dissident movement and diaspora community the West used the term. In the Soviet Union, psychiatric hospitals were often used by the author...
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