PSYCHIATRY in
The FREE ZONE:
How the Free Zone Appeared in Kiev

These Ron’s Orgs are famous for the “standard” application of the texts of Bill Robertson. He allegedly “opened top levels”. According to Vladislaw Kaydakov, (leader of the group “Navigator” which is one of the largest groups in the “Free Zone” in CIS as of the year 2005), at “top levels” of his group, he and his associates are at war with the governing body of the Church of Scientology. In general, the criticism of the Church is the foundation of the organizational policy of the “Free Zone”. In some of its groups such criticism is the basic theme of talks, and this similar line of behavior is inoculated to every new member.

Vyacheslav Shapkarin

In Kiev, the activity of the “Free Zone” (Ron’s Org) is directly connected with Vyacheslav Shapkarin. By his example, there is a conformity to a law that is well traced; in order to become a noticeable figure of the “Free Zone”, it is necessary to go very, very persistently by a crooked path. Here written is only a part of that path where Shapkarin went.

In 1993, a few years before the shedding of light on some information about the “Free Zone”, Shapkarin worked in the loony bin that is named after Pavlov in Kiev. This is where the Department of Psychiatry in the Medical academy for graduate doctors was founded. Having new acquaintances, Shapkarin called himself a doctor-psychiatrist. Well, as the word “psychiatrist” did not cause the certain people’s respect, he explained that he worked at the department, which was engaged in researching and the introduction of new psychiatric methods.

The chronicle of psychiatric acts that go along with world wars and catastrophes is not included in modern schools’ historical textbooks. So it is not astonishing that in our society the reputation of psychiatry became stronger: that it is a medical science, treating spiritual diseases.

However, facts — are a stubborn thing, and they prove this image (of psychiatry) to be incorrect at the root. Therefore, it is important to back track and give a short review or documentary of what psychiatry actually is, where it came from, what its traditional methods are and in what direction this search of “new” methods has gone.

Psychiatric establishment is in history from 1676, when the king of France Ludovic XIII published a decree about the organization of so-called hospitals of a general type through out the country and to contain there “corrupt and wasteful fathers, prodigal sons, blasphemes, those who aim to ruin themselves and also free-thinkers”. In the book “Production of Madness” the honored professor of psychiatry Thomas Szasz says that this decree marked the beginning of the era of “maintenance of reckless under guards”. The French hospitals of the general type were strictly guarded establishments. They conducted no treatment in them, and they “became famous” for the terrible treatment of prisoners in them. In these hospitals, the professional guard of the shelter was engendered — the direct ancestors of hospital psychiatrist.

At the beginning of the 19th century, Hogan Rale invented the word “psychiatry”, meaning “treatment of soul”. Rale was the first to claim their “psychical methods of therapy” as part of medical and surgical methods (before this claim, medicine looked with suspicion on similar methods). His (Rale) “psychical therapy” included a massage, beatings, flogging and opium.

During the first two hundred years of the history — from the end the 17th century and to the beginning of 20th century, psychiatrists had been subjecting their patients to the following methods of “treatment”: corporal punishments; enchainment to the wall or vestment in a strait jacket; unexpected “bathing” in cold water; locking in the different devices like a closed cage; rotation on the “chair of Darwin” until the patient’s blood will not go from mouth, ears and nose; castration for men; use of “compressor of ovaries” for hysterics women; unusual straps for hanging the patients to the ceiling; torture by hunger. It may not be necessary to say, that after such impact people were not only released from spiritual problems but most of them became invalids and died.

In the 20th century, at the wave of technical progress, psychiatrists began to increase new methods of their activity. Previously, for eradication of “improper” behavior, psychiatrists mainly used physical violence. As a result of inhuman experiments, in fascist concentration camps, they found out through circumstance, that some drugs could render some influence on the strongest man — on his sight, ear, speech, and on the behavior in general. It was a push for rapid growth of psychotropic medicines after the Second World War. Due to those pills, able to reduce a man to the level of a house plant, which then appeared in the hands of psychiatrists, the necessity for the mass use of more “rough” methods of influence on patients, fell off.

However, in spite of its wide scope, with the application of psychotropic medicines in psychiatry; psychiatrists still continued to “perfect” and use traditional methods of suppression — physical. The methods of “physical constraint” are used now — in ordinary language, it means the “strong fastening or attachment to anything”.

A new “scientific” method appeared under the name of “sex therapy”. It consists of psychiatrists who simply force patients — both women and men. Psychiatrists always used this method of handling patients, but only recently, it got an official status. Or the next new psychiatric term: “labor therapy” —it means “slave labor to increase the personal welfare of psychiatrists”.

During the second half of the 20th century, psychiatrists in the whole world, used three methods of “treatment” as basic ones: operations on a brain, electroshock and psychoactive medicines.

These methods can look very pseudo-scientific and impressive, however psychiatry today has the same percent of completely curing patients, as three hundred years ago —zero! Psychiatrists justify this fact that the “psychical diseases are incurable”. But, if that is correct, it is appropriate to ask: what is the purpose of the activity of psychiatrists in this case, if they beforehand refuse the possibility for a patient to recover his health?

The purpose of psychiatry as practiced, can be revealed if you analyze it as a system, as an integral structure united by parts of interconnection. By the end of the century, there were two systems of psychiatry in the world – western and soviet. Using the same methods in their activity, these two systems differ organizationally. The modern western psychiatric system is based on two things: on the great number of diagnoses of diseases, existence of which it is impossible to prove, and on the enormous amount psychotropic medicines which “treat” all these non-existent illnesses. This is a kind of joint venture of psychiatrists and pharmaceutical companies. In other words, the western psychiatric system is a multi-billion dollar business, where some “specialists” generate the non-existent diseases and others trade with “medicines” for these non-existent diseases.

Soviet psychiatry did not carry on business. It had another purpose – locating people who were violent and disagreeable to authorities. The basis of the Soviet psychiatric school is the theory from the professor Snezhanckiy, about a “dormant schizophrenia”. This theory asserts that any man who does not suffer from schizophrenia is afflicted with a dormant schizophrenia. Whew! Everyone is mad! And it is interesting that illness under the name “schizophrenia” cannot be discovered by any scientific methods - it is only a label, hung on those people, the behavior of whom is not suitable for psychiatrists or customers of their “services”! Due to such an intricate theory about “dormant schizophrenia”, any soviet man can be sent to a loony bin on a ”legal” basis.

In spite of visible distinctions between western psychiatry and soviet, the result of their activity is the same - hundreds of thousands of people were lost behind the walls of psychiatric establishments.

Thus, facts prove that psychiatry (both western and soviet) is not medical science. And because of that, it cannot treat anybody. At the disposal of psychiatrists, all existing methods are directed to a person who appealed to them for help, hoping to determine their spiritual problems. They suppress, using operations on a healthy brain, using the key-in of electric current through a brain, using narcotic medicines and even the most usual physical violence! Suppression — in many cases up to the offense of death — is the veritable purpose of psychiatry.

As to soviet psychiatry, after disintegration of the Soviet Union at the beginning of the 90s, psychiatry was deprived of government support (the main customer) who were in the business of mass violence against disagreeable people. And soviet psychiatrists began hastily to adopt the experience of their western colleagues and to search for new methods of earnings.

By the way, if someone tries to divide psychiatrists and psychologists, he assumes a very large error — they are representatives of the same profession. Simply psychologists are something like “civil specialists” who by pseudo-scientific speeches and outwardly proper manners bring in destructive ideas in those layers of society, where psychiatrists cannot break in with psychotropic medicines and strait jackets.

Document 1. Article of V. Shapkarin on the Internet

Therefore, we will go back to our history. At the beginning of the 90s Vyacheslav Shapkarin worked in the lunatic house named after Pavlov in Kiev and by his own words, he searched for “new methods”. The scheme of the work of similar “research” groups was and is very simple now. A small group of doctors-psychiatrists examine the methods of self-perfection created by someone and selects what can be applied within the framework of psychiatric establishments. Then these methods are shifted in a psychiatric manner and are tested on public, which comes out to be in affect like experimental rabbits. For Shapkarin these were the mental disease patients of Pavlov’s hospital. In general, not only mental disease patients become the victims of psychiatrists’ experiments but also there were ordinary people, applying to these “specialists” for help.

Working in a psychiatric establishment, Vyacheslav Shapkarin was engaged in “research” of Dianetics and Scientology. But why was he exactly interested in this research? It is simply because Shapkarin discovered that Dianetics and Scientology had truthful knowledge about the human mind and about human spiritual nature. In an article, published on the Internet, Shapkarin declares that he has checked on the capacity of many practical works in his practice: psycho-analysis, psycho-synthesis, etc. (To “check in practice” by Shapkarin means to attract people to paid seminars by promises of a cleansing effect, and then to observe what people feel as a result of such sessions). In this article, Shapkarin asserts that the indicated methods contain great numbers of different problems. At the end of the article he says that “SN [Scientology — author’s comment] solves above-stated problems”.

Thus, if Vyacheslav Shapkarin understood that the knowledge contained in Dianetics and Scientology could effectively help everybody with the solution to his problems, why would he not become a member of any one of the numerous Scientology organizations? An answer to this question is very simple. The purpose of Scientology is: “A civilization without madness, without criminals, without war, where capable people can prosper and honest people can have rights, and where man can attain greater heights”. And the psychiatrist, Shapkarin searched only new methods of making money and new methods of people manipulation. That knowledge which is used in Scientology organizations for the spiritual help of people, he hoped to apply for suppression and robbing of people.

In order to receive the truth and knowledge about how the human mind works, in 1993 Shapkarin under the guise of a student, got into the Humanitarian Center of Hubbard (Church of Scientology), which was in Moscow. With the same purpose, he and Dmitriy Ivahnenko together organized something like a center of stolen translations of L.R. Hubbard’s works in Kiev.

It is necessary to mark that among psychiatrists, except for Shapkarin, there were other people, interested in receiving Dianetics and Scientology’s knowledge for their experiments. There was V. G. Korotkonozhkin (Shapkarin’s leader), and “U.N. Polienko, researcher” in the area of child psychiatry. Shapkarin gave the first pirated translation of a book “Child Dianetics” to Polienko.

But one of the directions of Shapkarin’s activity was the research of foreign works to create new psychiatric methods of influence on patients. Another direction was to search for new methods of getting money.

By that time, the soviet psychiatric system did not have sufficient financing (and all representatives of old system, who pretended to heal patients were getting less money), the young generation of psychiatrists had to reform to the western way — to provide society with requiring paid “services”. The Leader Shapkarin tried to organize a special fund, which would finance a new project under the name “Integral psychotherapy”. There, in the department of psychiatry of the Medical academy for preparing graduate doctors, the paid seminars were held for all interested people. Those seminars were advertised as cleansing seminars.

The program of rehabilitation for drug addicts was mainly organized for the purpose of getting money from this department. Now you see the typical examples of what happened within the framework of this “program”, told by this former client of Shapkarin. In the middle of the 90s, a rich businessman brought his wife to the program. She had an addiction to cocaine. Shapkarin began to “counsel” this patient and as treatment, he decided to apply “sex therapy”. However, this woman told her husband about the experiment. The husband stirred up a large scandal and decided not to wait for the “program end”; he took his wife away from that psychiatric establishment.

In another case, Shapkarin was not successful in getting out of the scandal. A patient went under to guise to the “payment treatment” of the experiments conducted by Shapkarin. Shapkarin overcharged him, so the patient, apparently, “got to the core” of the “doctor”, and because of the Doctor’s aggregate crimes was bitten in the face. For a long time Shapkarin “had blackened eye”, reminding his colleagues to where greed could lead.

By the way, although an association of psychiatrists does not have high moral standards, Shapkarin had a bad reputation even among his colleagues - they characterized him as the coward and illiterate psychiatrist, who was overly concerned sexually.

Almost certainly, Shapkarin knew he did not have any authority in his field of activities. Therefore, he researched other ways that would bring him “upstairs”, not relying on growth in the line of psychiatry.

In the winter of 1997, Vyacheslav Shapkarin met a certain Yuri Titarenko, who declared himself a man representing the Ukraine at a conference on behalf of the State Committee in matters of religion. However, later, Titarenko said that he was the employee of the Special Forces; in reality, it was not clear what he was.

On meeting with Shapkarin, Titarenko asserted that Dianetics and Scientology had an enormous future and at that moment, the basic problem was not enough works of L.R. Hubbard translated into the Russian language. He said that they were figuring out this problem. At the Moscow Humanitarian Center of Hubbard (HCH, a Church of Scientology) they could work with the man who headed the department of translations there. As Titarenko said, the name of this man was Oleg Matveev. Oleg regularly provided them with necessary materials.

In the person of Titarenko, Shapkarin had found an unexpected associate in the business of the illegal use of Dianetics and Scientology materials for his personal financial gain. Shapkarin had realized that it was a chance to get to "large heights."

Oleg Matveev in the court GTSKH

Around the middle of 1997, Oleg Matveev, who had learned certain structures in the Humanitarian Center of Hubbard, was able to steal the works of the founder of Scientology, L.R. Hubbard that were translated into the Russian language and then he abandoned this organization. Matveev together with Arthur Pilipenko and Mister Blikov contacted representatives of the “Free Zone”; Erica and Max Hauri in Switzerland. Then all these people organized the first club of the “Free Zone” in Moscow and adopted the principle “it is not quite necessary to be a Scientologist in order to use Scientology” as their organizational basis. (The word "Scientologist" is the sign of the people belonging to churches and missions of Scientology. Thus, to name oneself as a Scientologist and then to attack the Church of Scientology, it is the same to name oneself as a rescuer while taking a life saver away from a sinking man).

Yuri Titarenko

With rejoicing, Titarenko and Shapkarin received news that their Moscow friends had stolen translations of the materials of the founder of the Church of Scientology. They organized a zone free of responsibility for the crimes they committed. In the spring of 1997, Titarenko invited Arthur Pilipenko to Kiev; he declared that Shapkarin and himself should join the “Free Zone”. Possibly, intentions of Shapkarin, Titarenko and other figures differed a bit, but in one aspect they coincided completely - the network organized by them had to earn money. That, under the protection presented by doing Scientology services for people, organizations of the “Free Zone” had to provide space for the psychiatric experiments of the owners and to fill their pockets with money. It was nothing other than, you do experiments on people under the guise of treatment, and you take money for it. This is realized by the psychiatric business-scheme, which Shapkarin mastered so well. Certainly, the thought that someone can fall so low morally, can cause the reaction of non-confront. However, if you are a decent man, but are afraid to look at the facts, even your high moral principles can be used by criminals as a slipknot on your neck.

What can an avid swindler dream about? About how easy it is to make money? To steal the technology of a product that is in demand, and then to flood that market with bad quality imitations — this is his dream. As Titarenko defined the basis of organizational activity in the “Free Zone”, he also declared in one of his brain-washing speeches given to potential “buyers”, he declared that Church of Scientology required too much money for its services – but in “Free Zone” it is possible to purchase all the same services, but at more low prices. Whew: spiritual healing — in the commercial world!

So, the organizers of the “Free Zone” proposed certain services at low prices. And here it is important to understand, what these “services” are and what happens with some people in the process of their receiving these “services”.