In 1946, the Soviet Union Conducted Human-Ape Hybrid Experiments Using Japanese Female POWs

The Cruelty Was Beyond Imagination

In 1946, a top-secret order was quietly circulated among the Soviet leadership.

Beria, the ruthless intelligence chief, initiated a horrifying experiment.

The location chosen was a remote POW camp in Siberia, where thousands of Japanese prisoners — both men and women — were held.
The harsh conditions and brutal guards had already pushed these prisoners to their physical and mental limits.

But an even more terrifying fate was looming — these unsuspecting Japanese female prisoners were about to be used in a biological experiment like no other.

What was the true purpose of this experiment?

Ivanov and the Origins of Cross-Species Experiments

In 1910, the city of Graz, part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, hosted an international conference of zoologists. Ilya Ivanov, a respected scientist, was invited to attend.

Ivanov came with a radical and unprecedented idea — using artificial insemination to crossbreed humans with other primates.

Standing before his peers, Ivanov described in detail his plan to use artificial insemination to combine human sperm or eggs with primate reproductive cells, hoping to create a new kind of life.

At the time, this idea was completely unheard of in the scientific community.

Although humans and primates share physiological and genetic similarities, it didn’t mean that such crossbreeding could be successful, whether through natural or artificial means.