Is it “crazy” to disagree with the government? In 1968 the poet Natalya Gorbanevskaya protested actions of her country’s government (an invasion of Czechoslovakia by the armed forces of the Soviet Union) and published a newsletter to promote human rights. In response, a Soviet court judged her to be mentally unstable. She was confined to a mental hospital for three years. As another Soviet writer put it, “If one does not think along the prescribed lines, they say, ‘You are not normal’” (G. v. D., 1970).