universal soldier circa 1926

It must be a slow newsday in Scotland because the Scotsman is running a story about Stalin's quest to create a race of half-ape super warriors who didn't feel pain and didn't complain when the beet harvest was anyting less than spectacular. I guess the scientist in charge, a breeding specialist by the name of Ilya Ivanov, tried to inseminate monkeys with human sperm and people with monkey sperm but, surprise surprise, it didn't work...and for not beng able to do the biologically impossible, he was exiled for five years.

An interesting quick read (and distraction from the "other news" of rising depotism in the United States).