Soviet dictator Josef Stalin tried to create an invincible army by crossing humans with apes, according to secret documents. The Kremlin chief ordered his scientists to create the mutant species that would be "resilient and resistant to hunger".Archive papers quote him demanding the breed should be of "immense strength but with an underdeveloped brain".Part of his terrifying plan was use the mutants to work on railway construction, according to The Sun.Secret laboratories and ape skeletons have been found in the Black Sea town of Suchumi in Georgia, by workmen building a playground for children.The bones are thought to come from apes captured in the 1920s and paid for by Stalin, who ordered scientist Ilia Ivanov to carry out the research.The leader used a French research station in Guinea for the work, where African women were seized to be impregnated with ape sperm.
No pregnancies resulted but the next stage was to implant human sperm in female gorillas.Ivanov was arrested in 1930 after his project failed and he died in a labour camp two years later