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Bled by [[World War I]], the Russian Civil War, and the [[Bolshevik Revolution]], Stalin sought to replenish his army with men who were "resistant to pain and indifferent to the food they eat."  Aware of earlier experiments of cross-species hybrids, Stalin set the task to create these "ape-men" to a brilliant scientist, Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov, a graduate and professor of Kharkov University.

Bled by [[World War I]], the Russian Civil War, and the [[Bolshevik Revolution]], Stalin sought to replenish his army with men who were "resistant to pain and indifferent to the food they eat."  Aware of earlier experiments of cross-species hybrids, Stalin set the task to create these "ape-men" to a brilliant scientist, Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov, a graduate and professor of Kharkov University.

Ivanov created a sensation in 1901 by perfecting and using the relatively new process of artificial insemination, which allowed him to increase herds (horses in his experiments) from a normal 30 foals per season by one stallion to 500 or more.  He also was a pioneer in hybrid production, i.e. crossing domestic or wild animals with related wild species; one of his creations was the zeedonk, a cross between a [[zebra]] and [[Przewalski’s horse]].

Ivanov created a sensation in 1901 by perfecting and using the relatively new process of artificial insemination, which allowed him to increase herds (horses in his experiments) from a normal 30 foals per season by one stallion to 500 or more.  He also was a pioneer in hybrid production, i.e. crossing domestic or wild animals with related wild species; one of his creations was the zeedonk, a cross between a [[zebra]] and [[Wild horse|Przewalski’s horse]].

The first suggestion of a human-ape hybrid was given by Ivanov in 1910 at the World Congress of Zoologists in Graz, Austria.  Believing in the concept of evolution, he theorized that humans and chimpanzees were so closely-related that a hybrid could be produced; in 1924 he secured permission from the Pasteur Institute in Paris to go to French Guinea and use the experimental primate station in Kindia, getting funding from the Soviet Academy of Sciences as well as the approval of Stalin.  Due to the lack of sexually-mature chimpanzees, Ivanov was forced to continue his experiments in Conakry, as well as returning to the Soviet Union to continue his work there.  In each experiment, the chimps failed to become pregnant.

The first suggestion of a human-ape hybrid was given by Ivanov in 1910 at the World Congress of Zoologists in Graz, Austria.  Believing in the concept of evolution, he theorized that humans and chimpanzees were so closely-related that a hybrid could be produced; in 1924 he secured permission from the Pasteur Institute in Paris to go to French Guinea and use the experimental primate station in Kindia, getting funding from the Soviet Academy of Sciences as well as the approval of Stalin.  Due to the lack of sexually-mature chimpanzees, Ivanov was forced to continue his experiments in Conakry, as well as returning to the Soviet Union to continue his work there.  In each experiment, the chimps failed to become pregnant.