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

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.

http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=2434192005

God Schmod I want my monkey man (rate ups to however gets the reference)

Edit Upon further reading

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.


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Edited, Wed Dec 21 13:41:51 2005 by bodhisattva

Damn...so I guess they stopped that whole project eh? Might have been interesting. I'm going to write my senator today, I'm thinkin we could go somewhere with this whole thing.

Why stop with ape's though? That's so the fad of the day, what with King Kong and all. Crocidiles would be fun, or kangaroo's actually.

bart simpson ftw!

something about wanting to make a half man/half monkey. it's been a while since I've seen that episode though...I think it was something about teach evolution in school.

Mississipians cannot throw a pile of sh[b][/b]it anywhere near as far as a monkey man. I can understand his desire for one.

Mr Ivanov's experiments, unsurprisingly from what we now know, were a total failure.

Worked for that Dr. Moreau guy.

Damn it I thought this thread was going to be about me from the title!

Have you seen some of the newer russian male immigrants here in NYC, are you sure that project was shut down?