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    When slavery was an institution, “drapetomania” (the pathological urge to escape from one’s masters) was recognised as a mental illness. The USSR had “sluggish schizophrenia” (whose symptoms matched the behaviour of dissidents), with which a lot of troublemakers were diagnosed and permanently institutionalised. The more things change…