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a look at 5 Scary Russian Experiments.
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Throughout history there have been countless tales of creepy and disturbing human experiments
- taking place in the secretive shadows of society - all in the name of science.
But in Russia, well - they do things a little differently.
During the Cold War - the Soviet Union was one of two superpowers on the planet, and
to keep their edge on all things scientific - some pretty insane experiments were conducted.
So - let’s take a look, shall we?
Jumping in at Number 1 - we have Zombie Dogs.
In 1940, the Soviet Union released a 20-minute long motion picture titled Experiments in
the Revival of Organisms.
Conducted by a Soviet research group, who were focusing on the potential resuscitation
of dead organisms - the video shows in great length canines being killed - and then…
brought back to life.
In various, horrifying ways.
Now - I love me some doggos, so this is going to be a little rough.
Credited to Doctor Sergei Brukhoneko and Boris Levinskovsky, the video shows several severed
dog heads that have been kept alive for hours on end.
These poor guys were even wiggling their ears still, licking their mouths and responding
to the humans around them.
The two scientists claimed that the animals were kept alive by an artificial blood circulation
system.
Crazily enough - the doctors developed a new version to be used on humans, that very same
year - and, well - no one really knows what happened to that.
The doctors went on to be awarded the prestigious Lenin Prize - although some commentators have
questioned the films authenticity - claiming that the severed dog's head only survived
for a few minutes when attached to the artificial heart.
Nasty stuff.
Coming in at Number 4 - we’ve got Underwater Cities.
In the 1960s, the Soviet’s decided that land wasn’t enough - so they changed things
up a bit, and headed underwater.
By 1966 - the Ichthyander Project was well underway - by a group of amateur divers at
their own site in the Crimea.
It seemed that in Soviet Russia, anyone could take a pop at experimental science.
And - well, it was pretty much an unrivaled success.
The same year, as part of the project - a human being spent 3 days continuously underwater
- held in a small, metal structure at the bottom of the Black Sea.
Well - it picked up some serious hype - and the underwater project soon attracted the
attention of the Soviet science authorities.
This led to an even bigger push into the experimental field - and in 1967 - the project operated
an underwater habitat for over 2 weeks.
Mysteriously after that - Project Ichthyander was abruptly dissolved - but records state
that the research led to several other Soviet experiments into underwater habitats - such
as Sakdo, Chernomor and Sprut.
So - it kind of makes you think…
are they still down there?
Next up at Number 3 - we have the Two Headed Dog.
Man, here’s another rough doggo video.
But - well, sadly, it seems like man’s best friend was the test subject of choice in most
early hybrid experimentation.
Such is the case with Doctor Vladimir Petrovich Demikhov.
Born in Moscow in 1916 - this Soviet Scientist dedicated his life's work to, what he referred
to as - Transplantology.
During the 1930s and 50s - Demikhov went on to pioneer several organ transplantations,
stuff that had just never been done before in medical science - such as a heart transplant
for an animal, and a lung-heart transplant.
His most messed up transplantation though - hands down - is his “research” into
dog-head transplants.
Which - well - resulted in a two-headed dog experiment.
Insanely enough, the experiment was actually a success - and he caught a portion of the
result on video.
Of course, the test subjects didn’t survive very long - but this experiment paved the
way for other animal head transplants - such as apes.
Dr. Demikhov’s true legacy though - was to perform human head-transplants.
No thanks!
And swinging in at Number 2 - Man-Monkey-Hybrids.
Yep - you heard that right.
Born in the small town of Schigry - Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov was a Soviet Biologist that was the
definition of a real life mad scientist.
Now - in reality, Ivanov’s research in other fields led to some pretty groundbreaking stuff
- particularly in the field of horse-breeding.
But - his main hang up, was that he was absolutely obsessed with making a human-ape hybrid.
As early as 1910, Ivanov had given a presentation on his plans for human-ape life to the World
Congress of Zoologists in Graz - where he outlined his plans to create a Simeon Hybrid.
So in the 1920s - Ivanov set about his experiments - working with human sperm and female chimpanzees.
It didn’t work, but Ivanov was determined.
In 1929 - he organized another set of experiments - this time involving ape sperm - and … human
“volunteers” - the experiments were publically delayed due to the death of Ivanov’s last
orangutan - but, no one really knows the true outcome of his life's work.
In the 1930s - after a political shakeup in the Soviet scientific world - Ivanov was arrested
and exiled to Alma Ata.
Who knows whether his legacy lives on?
And finally - at our Number 1 spot - Laboratory 1.
In 1921 - the Soviet Secret Service - also known as the Cheka, undertook various tests
on deadly poisons in an aim to create the perfect weapon.
In 1939 - the small test location was renamed Laboratory 1 - and came under the command
of notorious Soviet biochemist - Grigory Mairanovsky.
Their objective was the stuff of horrors - and set a precedent that would use animals and
humans as test subjects to perfect their methods of mass extermination.
Mairanovsky and his team of scientists would test their poisons on human prisoners from
Russian gulags - who they dubbed the so called “enemies of the people.”
These poisons included mustard gas, ricin, digitoxin and cyanide - given to their victims
under the guise as a meal, drink - or even medication.
Eventually - these vile experiments led to the development of C-2/K-2 - a poison which
caused victims to become calm and silent, then then eventually die within 15 minutes.
Although Marianovsky was arrested by Joseph Stalin as part of a political-science shakeup,
his horrific legacy lived on - and Laboratory 1 was reportedly reactivated in the late 1990s
- as part of a biological and toxin weapons project.
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