'The Island of Dr. Stalin'!

[Ranger]

Amazing - but true (credit to Boing Boing & Scotsman newspaper):

Recently-uncovered documents in Moscow apparently reveal that Josef Stalin hoped to crossbreed humans and apes to create superwarriors. In 1926, animal breeding scientist Illya Ivanov was sent to Africa with $200,000 to begin the project while a laboratory was established in Georgia. After the project didn't pan out, Ivanov was exiled to Kazakhstan. From The Scotsman:

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..."



Now if someone made a film about this you wouldn't belive it would you - fact IS stranger than fiction!

Stalin wanted Planet of the Apes-like troops!

[Norm]

Now we know where Farcry's storyline came from.

[Maus]

Originally posted by Ranger@Dec 21 2005, 07:55 AM
"I want a new invincible human being, insensitive to pain, resistant and indifferent about the quality of food they eat..."

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Well, he could just have accomplished the last one by making his army eat at McDonald's.

[Ranger]

Originally posted by Norm@Dec 21 2005, 02:47 PM
Now we know where Farcry's storyline came from.

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Awwwwwww - you git!

I have JUST started playing this!

There goes the plot surprise!!!!!

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[Dewey]

This is the bit I find scarey..

He returned to the Soviet Union, only to see experiments in Georgia to use monkey sperm in human volunteers similarly fail

and I very much doubt the poor women would have been volunteers - doesn't bare thinking about  

[Ranger]

Originally posted by Dewey@Dec 21 2005, 04:40 PM
This is the bit I find scarey..
and I very much doubt the poor women would have been volunteers - doesn't bare thinking about

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Though it would explain those Russian women shot-putters in the 1960s and 70s...

And why Russian women are so hairy!