Scotsman.com News - International - Stalin's half-man, half-ape super-warriors

In 1926 the Politburo in Moscow passed the request to the Academy of Science with the order to build a "living war machine";. The order came at a time when the Soviet Union was embarked on a crusade to turn the world upside down, with social engineering seen as a partner to industrialisation: new cities, architecture, and a new egalitarian society were being created."