http://www.lightstalkers.org/galleries/contact_sheet/24371 "Mental Hospital in Neppovo" 2006, Saint-Petersburg Region The patients of the asylum are to work four hours a day. For many of them life in the asylum turns into day by day hard labour. Patients work in the laundry, help in the canteen, work in the fields, tend sheep and cows, clean the pigsty, etc. The patients are to get the money for some of the jobs they do, but they earn very little and the sum depends on the brigadier, the woman responsible for the work. They also see and taste very little of the products of their labour, horns and hoofs, as they say. And meat goes to the brigadier, the head of the territory or somebody else. Thus they live deprived of practically all the human rights having no opportunity to leave even for the week-ends to see their relatives and punished for an attempt to escape or for unwillingness to work by several days in a cell and aminazine. Many of them have lived for about 20 years there but there are those who are a little bit more than 20 years old. One of the youngest patients of the lunatic asylum, is Ljuba, a girl of my age. She fully realizes that she is imprisoned there for the rest of her life. She told me once: We know practically nothing of ourselves. The doctors know everything of us. And we are just to live, to work and to go to the bathhouse from time to time. 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