Sounds very USSR-like indeed. Anyone who couldn’t understand the “benefits of communism” or rejected atheism in favor of religion got labeled “mentally ill” and was sent to the special doctors.
You (and Kennard and saganite) have the right of it.
I cannot recall any conversation with a leftist that DIDN’T contain ignorance, lies, or projection.
Projection is dumping off their inadequacies onto another.
WHY they must do this is important to understand.
The truth is - they are full of self-loathing, and cannot stand the portrait of themselves that introspective analysis reveals.
It is an emotional compulsion, projection.
Their hollowness demands servitude to its corrosive dictates.