Cutaway view of the “Palace of the Soviets”, Moscow, concept by Boris Iofan. The Palace of the Soviets was to be an administrative center and congressional hall located in Moscow. It would have become the world’s tallest structure of its time. Construction started in 1937 and was terminated by the German invasion in 1941. During the war, its steel frame was disassembled for use in the war effort. It was never completed.
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Miss Mend, 1926
Miss Mend is a 1926 Soviet spy film, originally realized in three parts, directed by and starring Boris Barnet and Fyodor Otsep. It is loosely based on the books by Marietta Shaginyan. The story follows the adventures of three reporters who try to stop a biological attack on the USSR by powerful Western businessmen. (Wikipedia)
Russian Express, 1939
Tours to USSR, 1932
Airships for Lenin, 1931
1931 Soviet poster reading: “We are building a fleet of airships for Lenin”
Soviet Airship B4, 1934
Stalin’s half-man, half-ape super-warriors
Super-troopers: Stalin wanted Planet of the Apes-like troops, insensitive to pain and hardship.
CHRIS STEPHEN AND ALLAN HALL
The Soviet dictator Josef Stalin ordered the creation of Planet of the Apes-style warriors by crossing humans with apes, according to recently uncovered secret documents.
Moscow archives show that in the mid-1920s Russia’s top animal breeding scientist, Ilya Ivanov, was ordered to turn his skills from horse and animal work to the quest for a super-warrior.
According to Moscow newspapers, Stalin told the scientist: “I want a new invincible human being, insensitive to pain, resistant and indifferent about the quality of food they eat.”
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. Continue reading “Stalin’s half-man, half-ape super-warriors”