Socialismo científico...

...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.

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

Mr Ivanov's...in 1926...was dispatched to West Africa with $200,000 to conduct his first experiment in impregnating chimpanzees...a centre for the experiments was set up in Georgia

[via Drudge]