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The Red Scare of the Early 50s
The experiment was just an official euphemism for putting these men through hell just because they could. The accounts are hardly different in any detail from what you'd expect to read about people who had fallen into the hands of a deranged serial killer. After the experiment at petech most of the students were sent to slave labor camps and worked to death anyway so it's not as if the authorities were real concerned with whether their personalities had been truly sustainably altered.