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Attempts to conceive ape children, a frenzied Soviet experiment, ended in failure

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Perhaps after the end of World War II, no one could shake the supremacy of the Soviet Union in the world, so that the development of its country always showed a crazy momentum in the confrontation with the United States, as if the Soviet Union was eager to maintain an absolute lead in all fields in order to prove the status of the Soviet Superpower to other countries.

So with the acquiescence of those in power, the Soviet Union at that stage had conducted very crazy experiments in all walks of life, some of which did not even know the results, but only satisfied the pathological research hobby of Soviet scientists.

Attempts to conceive ape children, a frenzied Soviet experiment, ended in failure

For example, the Soviet Union once conducted an experiment of extermination of human nature: scientists injected chimpanzee sperm into girls' bodies in an attempt to conceive ape children to prove the feasibility of cross-species human-animal hybridization.

Scientists were also said to have planned to create a mixed group of soldiers suitable for high-intensity combat, but the process was so cruel that the experiment ended in failure.

Attempts to conceive ape children, a frenzied Soviet experiment, ended in failure

The crazy experiment of the genius scientist Ivanov

It is reported that this inhumane scientific experiment took place in the 1930s, and the scientist who proposed this experiment was named Ilya Ivanov.

Ivanov was a well-known reproductive expert in the Soviet Union at that time, he was admitted to The Karlkov University in the Soviet Union in 1892, and after graduation, he concentrated on the application of artificial insemination technology, and was a top genius in this industry.

Attempts to conceive ape children, a frenzied Soviet experiment, ended in failure

With the help of experimental learning, Ivanov once bred excellent horses through artificial insemination, he added the sperm of well-bred stallions to dilute them with other substances, and then injected them into different mares, and later bred 500 small foals of excellent breeds.

This achievement was a great shock in the biological community at that time, and if it was in wartime, this genetic cultivation technology would play a huge role.

Attempts to conceive ape children, a frenzied Soviet experiment, ended in failure

Perhaps it is the fame and fortune brought by this success, and later the government will basically refuse the experimental plan proposed by him, and the various departments will open a "green channel" for the data he needs, probably to see a new miracle in this person. Without the distraction of external factors, Ivanov's experiments became deeper and more frantic, until the great ape hybridization plan was proposed.

Attempts to conceive ape children, a frenzied Soviet experiment, ended in failure

In fact, there was also a voice at that time that the ape hybridization program was a concept proposed by the Soviet military, and their original intention was to use the powerful natural genes of apes to combine human genes to cultivate a group of apes with physical strength beyond normal humans.

If the plan succeeded, it would have cultivated a remarkable military presence for a possible future war in the Soviet Union, and ivanov was the best to implement the plan in the whole country.

Regardless of whether this rumor is true or not, the Soviet military at that time also acquiesced to the ape hybridization plan, and even provided a lot of research and development military funds, including Ivanov when he went to collect data from various places, and military planes were responsible for transporting.

Attempts to conceive ape children, a frenzied Soviet experiment, ended in failure

By the end of 1926, the great ape hybridization program was officially launched, when Ivanov took the government's special approval of 200,000 yuan to go to Guinea, Africa, to find chimpanzees suitable for pregnancy.

With the help of local villagers, three adult chimpanzees were selected and brought back to the Soviet laboratory, ivanov sent people to take good care of the three experimental subjects, followed by the extraction of fresh sperm from human males, which were injected into the chimpanzees to complete the whole experiment.

Attempts to conceive ape children, a frenzied Soviet experiment, ended in failure

The experiment ended in failure

On April 17, 1926, human sperm was successfully injected into the body of a chimpanzee, and Ivanov began to observe the conception of chimpanzees, and when the female chimpanzee had no menstrual period, the chimpanzee could be declared successful.

However, Ivanov was disappointed, and the chimpanzees still had a physiological reaction for several weeks, although Ivanov did not stop injecting sperm into the chimpanzees during this period, but did not achieve any results. Two months later, Ivanov could only declare the first experiment a failure.

Attempts to conceive ape children, a frenzied Soviet experiment, ended in failure

For the next year, he experimented with three orangutans, initially increasing or decreasing the number of sperm injected, and then simply changing the orientation of the sperm, that is, replacing other men with fresh sperm.

But none of these changes have yielded significant results, which has made Ivanov, who has failed for a whole year, begin to reflect, is it true that he went the wrong way at the beginning?

In order to test his idea, Ivanov intends to completely subvert it, extracting the sperm of male chimpanzees and then conceiving them by human women.

Attempts to conceive ape children, a frenzied Soviet experiment, ended in failure

But this crazy idea was severely opposed as soon as it was proposed, and even now women cannot be used as experimental objects to cultivate animal embryos, this madness is illegal, no matter how prominent Ivanov's title was, can not do such an inhuman experiment.

Originally, the academic experts in the biological community still had a lot of support for Ivanov's previous proposals, but when they heard Ivanov's crazy ideas now, they all stopped him from stopping his behavior, and whether the experiment was successful or not, this precedent could not be opened.

Attempts to conceive ape children, a frenzied Soviet experiment, ended in failure

At that time, the location of Ivanov's experiment was in the French colony of Guinea, and the governor of Guinea directly sent someone to supervise Ivanov after hearing about this incident, and once he found that his experiment showed signs of anti-humanity, he was killed immediately!

But by July 1929, Ivanov, who was already desperate, secretly carried out such an experiment, and five women who were victims participated in the experiment, and they were all injected with chimpanzee sperm in different proportions. But without exception, no woman showed signs of pregnancy, and even Ivanov had to admit that his experiments had failed from beginning to end!

Attempts to conceive ape children, a frenzied Soviet experiment, ended in failure

epilogue

Because of such an act against humanity, Ivanov was punished as he deserved during the Great Purge of the Soviet Union, and he was exiled to Kazakhstan, never setting foot in the experimental field for half a step in his life.

Later, the genius scientist who once shone in the eyes of others was depressed, and perhaps he did not understand until his death what was wrong with his experiment and why it failed.

Attempts to conceive ape children, a frenzied Soviet experiment, ended in failure

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