Stanislav Hryhorovych Sudakov

STANISLAV HRYHOROVYCH SUDAKOV (b. February 9, 1945, in Dnipropetrovsk – d. October 22, 1992, in Dnipropetrovsk)
Attempted to escape the USSR. A victim of punitive psychiatry.
On August 19, 1974, Sudakov and his family broke into the US embassy in Moscow but were denied political asylum by American diplomats. Upon leaving the embassy, he was arrested. During his detention, he resisted and was charged with “hooliganism” (Article 206, Part 2 of the RSFSR Criminal Code). Until 1979, he was held in the Dnipropetrovsk Special Psychiatric Hospital, then was transferred to the Tashkent SPH, and later to the SPH in Taldy-Kurgan (Kazakhstan). In 1982, he was sent to the psychiatric hospital in Iren, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, where he was held in the 9th high-security ward. In 1984, he escaped and hid for a year with his sister in Tallinn (Estonia). In 1985, he was captured by the KGB in a restaurant in Tallinn. He was held in the Leningrad SPH. In March 1989, he was examined by American psychiatrists. In 1990, he was transferred to the Dnipropetrovsk regional psychiatric hospital. In late 1990, he was released. In confinement, he was pumped full of large doses of neuroleptics and beaten. There he contracted tuberculosis and lost a great deal of weight.
Sudakov’s adopted son, Vadym, b. 1966, was convicted on fabricated criminal charges. His son, Yaroslav, b. 1974, was held in an orphanage.
Shortly after his release, Sudakov was placed in a regional tuberculosis dispensary. He died there at the age of 47.
Author: Oleg Sofianyk, 2012