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Part One: The Russian Scientist Who Helped Kill 30 Million People

Behind the Bastards

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Can a Monkey Give Consent to What I Have Planned?

Ilya's plan to cross breed humans and chimpanzees was too radical for the Soviet Academy of Sciences. A lot of really good science was being done in the Soviet Union, in the early part of the Soviet Union. For a while, the Soviet state was the world center of genetic science. Anything was seen as possible. Human beings and living beings were seen as very malleable.

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