Ilya Ivanov was a brilliant scientist known for being the father of artificial fertilization and also his studies of hybridization. His works lead to more efficient breeding in Horses and other livestock. However his most disturbing works are his attempt to breed Humans and Chimpanzees together, which will be the subject matter of this post. Allegedly on the orders of Josef Stalin, Ivanov allegedly attempted to create an army of hybrid super-soldiers for the Red Army. During the 20s, Ivanov tried to experiment by artificially impregnating Chimpanzees and Orangutangs with human sperms. As you might have expected, non of the apes got pregnant. Then Ivanov tried to experiment with Human women with male Ape sperms, but this was too far for the Authorities. He never had any success creating even a pregnancy throughout his life. However, further investigations into the motivations of Ivanov's works was actually an attempts to disprove Christianity by proving that Human's truly evolved from Apes, not creating super-solderers (although it is likely that Stalin would have experiment with that if Ivanov was successful in creating one such hybrid).
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