Before the revoltion in 1917 many mental health institutions had been opened by the Crown to serve those who had verifable mental illnesses. These places were not meant as a place for political prisoners or those who dissented against the Crown. However, when the Bolsheviks and Lenin assumed power these institutions were ruble. Many were destroyed in the war and the new leaders were hopeful to rebuild them. It was not until the reign of Stalin and the privilege that the police bureaus held did the mission begin to change. The prison and hard-labor camps systems had created a place of misery and many would feign mental illness to get out of being sent away to these camps. But, with a new Soviet model of mental illness diagnosis and the death of Stalin, Khrushchev would begin what was formally understood as the imprisonment of those who dissented both politically and ideologically with the Soviet government. The Gorbachev administration would maintain the imprisonments but with the introduction of Perestroika and Glasnost would begin to end this cycle. Thorough the entire timeline of this practice except in the final years after their departure from the World Psychiatric Association, the KGB and Department of the Interior would have power to confine these indivduals and persude doctors that the patients truly were sick. The Department of the Interior and the KGB also were the ones responsible for the the upkeep and the maintenance of all special psychiatric hospitals while all other non-special institutions were the responsibility of the Ministry of Health.