The lives of schizophrenics really matter

Latejew
6 min readJan 24, 2022

Schizophrenics all over the world, and especially in Russia, are killed by swindlers and have their property transferred to them, even though the overwhelming majority of the so-called sick people are perfectly healthy. Many have already suffered from this. Now we are the poor and the “sick” forgotten but we sincerely believe that in the future justice will be done, schizophrenia will not be a pretext for killing people and all thieves and murderers will be punished.

Now I will tell you a story that began a long time ago. I will tell you about Prokhorov Alexander Vladimirovich, born in 1981, the victim of punitive psychiatry in Russia. He is now 40 years old. His problems started a long time ago. He was unlucky to be born into an unloved, beaten and abused family. At the age of 10, he started talking about it at school, which infuriated his family. His grandfather, Alexander Josephovich Yelkin, is a crazy man. An obsession came into his head to isolate his grandson from everything. He joined Alexander’s parents in their bullying. At the age of 12, he was forcibly placed in a children’s mental hospital. But after a while keeping little Alexander there was already too provocative for the performers and he was released as a healthy man. After his return to school, Alexander did not stop talking about his problems in the family. Already at school his grandfather started to tell all his friends and teachers that Sasha was mad and should not be listened to. After some time, he was forbidden to go to school at all, Sasha was forbidden to go out of the house under various threats and in the end, he was illegally issued a disability certificate.

As he grew up, Sasha gained access to the Internet and began to research human rights and the history of his oppressors, learning more and more scary facts every day. At the same time, the criminals were getting cheeky. They took him periodically to see a police officer they knew, who also threatened him with another incarceration in a mental hospital.

In 2008, Alexander started to write about his troubles publicly for the first time. His relatives did not know about it. But they did know about the case when he posted on the internet scans of his grandfather’s documents and his caricatures of his patrons from the Moscow City Hall. The grandfather feared for his reputation with his superiors and stepped up the pressure. Then his grandson already started secretly filming what was going on with him in the apartment. In the same year of 2008, Sasha received a fake certificate that he was allegedly registered in a psychiatric hospital.

Sasha’s grandfather, Alexander Iosifovich Yelkin, is a perfect opportunist who always finds common ground with his superiors. During his long life this was proved more than once. He was sort of a scientist in Soviet times (he did not really do science, but only pretended to do it). He was kicked out of the academy under Gorbachev. Already in modern Russia he switched from communists to the United Russia party. He was friends with the former Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov from 2008 onwards. He helps the United Russia party in every possible way and is a confidante of Putin. Now he has connections with people from the federal security service, security agencies, and the mayor’s office in Moscow. A. I. Yelkin and N. A. Zhuravlyova created a criminal organization under the guise of legal entity “Academy of Scientific Medical Investigations” LLC, the main economic activity of which is the activity of forensic medical institutions, which means that A. I. Yelkin and N. A. Zhuravlyova, against whom Sasha is bringing charges, in fact have the authority to issue medical opinions. So, it became possible to slander anyone who went against them, based on their own “medical report”. Yelkin has fake ranks of FSB General, Cossack General and fake merit awards.

After 2008, Sasha subsided and so did the pressure on him. This went on until 2016 and at some point Yelkin’s patience ran out and the fear of his grandson, who knew a lot of information, made the pressure resume. The grandfather decided to get rid of his grandson for good (which did not work out to the end, fortunately). He came up with a plan: Yelkin, breaking into Sasha’s apartment directly, was to provoke Sasha to return the attack or at least to write a statement. Then, in their opinion, he would go to the police to the district police officer (Yelkin had bribed him in advance for the necessary actions) on his own, and the district police officer would fulfill the order to place him in a hospital, regardless of what Alexander said or wrote to him.

Three months later, the district police officer was bragging about how he had planned everything, how he had sent Sasha to Gannushkin’s psychiatric hospital (pkb4). In fact, the precinct officer had no grounds or authority. He had no right whatsoever to refer the application to psychiatrists.

Gannushkin’s PKB4 is the psychiatric hospital where people who do not like Yelkin’s gang can be sent (their head psychiatrist is Yelkin’s friend, Feodoritis Z.U., who owes everything in his life to him). For money in it not only maimed, but also killed. That is where Sasha was sent to his certain death.

A bogus excuse was used: “I came to the police with a complaint” as if that was enough to incarcerate him in a mental hospital. The district police officer put on a whole play planned in advance by A.I. Yelkin and V.V. Anonyev (that’s the former Yelkin and V.V. Anonyev). Anonyev (this is a former FSB agent hired by Yelkin for $9000, who took Sasha’s confidence and also asked him to write a statement about his grandfather to the district police department). The bottom line is that the divisional officer does not know who Elkin is, and is trying to convince Alexander that he — abnormal. The policeman lied, saying that he had allegedly found out about Sasha’s registration at the mental hospital (which wasn’t true) and that’s why he was sending him there. The policeman didn’t even finish reading the application and didn’t copy the evidence base of 15 gigabytes to himself. Initially, together with Yelkin, they wanted to send Sasha to the hospital as a suicide. Yelkin himself lied to him that Alexander had attempted suicide. So, the district police officer tried to get Sasha to tell him about these attempts (which did not happen). When he said that he had not had any suicide attempts, the precinct officer, again exceeding his authority, simply dubbed the entire statement nonsense and untrue.

So, in the fall of 2016, Alexander was taken to Gannushkin’s pkb4. Gannushkin. There is a recording, where at the moment of arrival with the statement Sasha was already being stung by the nurses from the psychiatric hospital. On this recording, they are supposedly listening to what Sasha has to say (actually, they are not interested). It is this video that completely refutes the police officer’s report and the doctors’ conclusion. At the moment of Alexander’s transportation to the mental hospital the following happened, going through his things, criminal doctors accidentally turned on his phone Dictaphone and the sound of the trip was recorded and on the arrival to the hospital there was a recording of how they stole money from Alexander’s belongings. The psychiatrist Andrei Borisovich, nicknamed “wild”, was assigned to Gannushkin. It was he who could kill a patient long and painfully for money. So why didn’t he kill Alexander as well? Because of greed. Yelkin had already paid the wild man, but he demanded more, Yelkin got greedy, and the Wild One did not complete the “order. In the end, a few months later, Sasha was free.

After all this, he started sounding the alarm. He wrote everywhere he could. Some publicity frightened the scoundrels away. They don’t dare to kill openly. But there wasn’t any legal help from anyone. Human rights activists are afraid of the authorities and won’t take the case. But Sasha also has a big problem — he’s almost dying now, he’s very sick. He can’t write or talk much; he can’t remember anything right away without being asked. The “Yelkinpanorama” investigation was published, it’s not even finished yet, there’s a lot of material.

After the publications, Sasha’s supporters started to appear. He became a human rights activist for all those illegally incarcerated in mental institutions and began to fight against punitive psychiatry. But in order to make a full-fledged fight against lawlessness he needs financial help and publicity for everything that is going on; no one in Russia wants to help, everyone is afraid of the authorities.

Part of the video with the proofs is posted on the YouTube channel, but only in Russian. So were also launched NFT, created by himself and real schizophrenics, which anyone can buy:

https://opensea.io/collection/schizofacedark

https://opensea.io/SchizophrenicLivesMatter

Please don’t stay away and help in any way you can!

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Latejew

I’m a schizophrenic, an alcoholic, and an artist.