Stalin's half-man, half-ape super-warriors

Blazkowicz · #1 (**permalink**) April 16th, 2007, 07:16 AM

This is bit old, but I just found it and thought it was interesting. From The Scotsman article here.

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Stalin's half-man, half-ape super-warriors
CHRIS STEPHEN AND ALLAN HALL
Tue 20 Dec 2005

THE Soviet dictator Josef Stalin ordered the creation of Planet of the Apes-style warriors by crossing humans with apes, according to recently uncovered secret documents.

Moscow archives show that in the mid-1920s Russia's top animal breeding scientist, Ilya Ivanov, was ordered to turn his skills from horse and animal work to the quest for a super-warrior.

According to Moscow newspapers, Stalin told the scientist: "I want a new invincible human being, insensitive to pain, resistant and indifferent about the quality of food they eat."

In 1926 the Politburo in Moscow passed the request to the Academy of Science with the order to build a "living war machine". The order came at a time when the Soviet Union was embarked on a crusade to turn the world upside down, with social engineering seen as a partner to industrialisation: new cities, architecture, and a new egalitarian society were being created.

The Soviet authorities were struggling to rebuild the Red Army after bruising wars.

And there was intense pressure to find a new labour force, particularly one that would not complain, with Russia about to embark on its first Five-Year Plan for fast-track industrialisation.

Mr Ivanov was highly regarded. He had established his reputation under the Tsar when in 1901 he established the world's first centre for the artificial insemination of racehorses.

Mr Ivanov's ideas were music to the ears of Soviet planners and in 1926 he was dispatched to West Africa with $200,000 to conduct his first experiment in impregnating chimpanzees.

Meanwhile, a centre for the experiments was set up in Georgia - Stalin's birthplace - for the apes to be raised.

Mr Ivanov's experiments, unsurprisingly from what we now know, were a total failure. He returned to the Soviet Union, only to see experiments in Georgia to use monkey sperm in human volunteers similarly fail.

A final attempt to persuade a Cuban heiress to lend some of her monkeys for further experiments reached American ears, with the New York Times reporting on the story, and she dropped the idea amid the uproar.

Mr Ivanov was now in disgrace. His were not the only experiments going wrong: the plan to collectivise farms ended in the 1932 famine in which at least four million died.

For his expensive failure, he was sentenced to five years' jail, which was later commuted to five years' exile in the Central Asian republic of Kazakhstan in 1931. A year later he died, reportedly after falling sick while standing on a freezing railway platform.

Miller · #2 (**permalink**) April 17th, 2007, 03:23 AM

Well, I have heard stranger things; but not many. That is just flat out bizzarre.

Sounds like it's something out of Wolfenstein eh Blazkowicz?

wilconqr · #3 (**permalink**) May 5th, 2007, 09:26 AM

Sounds like a headliner from National Enquirer. Drown your brain in this foolishness if you dare: http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/so...erhoodss09.htm

Za Rodinu · #4 (**permalink**) May 5th, 2007, 10:45 AM

Von Poop · #5 (**permalink**) May 5th, 2007, 11:18 AM

Don't look at the spinning disc!!!!!
He's hypnotising you for the next genetic program I tell You!!!

Kai-Petri · #6 (**permalink**) May 5th, 2007, 03:22 PM

Yes, must say Za has been using that disc pretty frequently so there must be more to it...

Terry_214 · #7 (**permalink**) May 5th, 2007, 08:57 PM

I think I've heard it all now!!

But it does explain the story of the film Rocky 3.

ScreamingEagleMG42 · #8 (**permalink**) May 6th, 2007, 07:16 AM

GUYS! dont do it! i stared at the spinning disk. The next thing i remember is waking up in a lab next to a bunch of monkeys with guns.

ChzPhries · #9 (**permalink**) May 6th, 2007, 01:50 PM

I stared at the disk and te next thing I knew I woke up surrounded by apes with my pants unbuttoned!

Honestly though, the super apes thing doesn't surprise me, it seems more plausible at that time than something as powerful as the a-bomb.

Joe · #10 (**permalink**) May 23rd, 2007, 06:07 PM

You DON'T whant to hear of what happened to me after looking at the spinning disk...

Hawkerace · #11 (**permalink**) May 24th, 2007, 12:46 AM

I looked at the spinning thing.

..my mother came in and called me a idiot!

OH THE HORROR OF THE DISK

wilconqr · #12 (**permalink**) May 24th, 2007, 08:32 AM

Makes more sense than this kooky theory.....

Za Rodinu · #13 (**permalink**) May 24th, 2007, 09:19 AM

You pays your money and you takes your choice.

von_noobie · #14 (**permalink**) June 4th, 2007, 05:37 AM

In theory something like that may be possible but i think Stalin failed to relise sometimes it takes hundreds of thousands of years of evolution for ape to turn into man, No way his scientist are going to go and make a half breed in 15 or so years, They would need atleast 10+ years using the stuff we have today, Which i dont need to say is over a hundred times more effective/accurate/efficient than what they had back then.