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

Behind the Bastards

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Is That a Monkey and a Human?

Iliad 1st in 1910, he doesn't really get many people on board with his research but he continues to like be an advocate for making human beings and monkeys breed. In 1924, seven years after the revolution that brings the Bolsheviks into power, Iliad is working as a sperm disinfector. The Institute Pasteur in France offers to support his attempt to hybridize man apes. He gets official approval from the Soviet Academy of Sciences. And he was able to make a Dr. Marotite.

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