Professor Ilya Ivanov (1870-1932) – Human-Monkey Hybridization

After this date, Prof. Ilya Ivanov began to specialise in the hybridization of animals, particularly between domestic and wild variations, where he successfully crossed a zebra and donkey, a bison and domestic cow, an antelope and cow, a mouse with a rat, and a mouse with a guinea pig. At that time, genetics as a science was still in its infancy, and there was a widespread view that such hybrids could give rise to new types of pets.

US Fiction: Debunking Soviet Sleep Experiments

Of course, a Russian colleague of mine thinks that this story might well be a modern invention designed to denigrate the reputation of modern Russia by referring to a corrupt Soviet past. The point is that the alleged Soviet sleep experiments are nothing but an unscientific and ahistorical myth, designed to keep a poorly educated Western workforce in a state of fear and opposition against the very Socialist ideology that would free it from the horror of capitalist oppression.

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