Sounds like the plot to the novel "The Postman" in which the government creates a strike force of steroid-mutant warriors. When the Nazis invaded the USSR, Stalin did not lack for human soldiers who would obey orders and march to their deaths by the millions. No simian-hybrids required.

Your knowledge is encyclopedic!

Patrick, when the Nazis invaded in June 1941 there had been a 15 year gap between Ivanov's experiments and also Stalin had both industrialized and modernized his Red Army with tanks and better small arms. Still, the Red troops surrendered or deserted by the hundreds of thousands forcing the German Blitzkrieg to slow b/c they had to process the POWs to the rear. They would have shot them but lacked the ammunition! Also, the Ukraine initially welcomed the Germans as liberators until the SS and Einsatzkommandos appeared. Stalin got so angry with losses that he attached political troops to his army and shot anyone in retreat, so those willing to fight and die as cannon fodder had a MG in their back the entire time. Stalin stated that "It took a brave man NOT to be a Hero of the Soviet Union"!!! And since they moved their industry back past the Urals, Stalin also utilized hated Asian troops to boost the strength of the Red Army. These dirty Siberians were looked upon as sub-human dogs and were treated as such. This is evidenced when the massive rapes occured in 1945 Germany. The Asians were often not allowed to participate even in revenge! Btw, the Nazi supersoldier program did exist through medical experiments with drugs like D.IX which were to be issued to all German servicemen by Oct 1945. D.IX allowed a soldier to march 55 miles straight with very little water and be able to fight when he got to the battlefield. That drug caused a soldier to obey orders, ignore pain, and operate like a well-trained robot/zombie. Soviet encounters released in the 2000s with Waffen SS using initial batches report soldiers taking rounds w/o flinching and continuing to fight devoid of emotion. Many were fatally shot and kept firing until their systems shut down. The drug mix in D.IX is kept secret. Even the American Journal of Medicine only listed 3 ingredients as producing this now with criminals would be detrimental to police and tac teams.

Thanks JAB :)

I remember that movie "Enemy at the Gates" in which officers stood behind Russian soldiers and shot them if they tried to retreat. I had never considered the mass surrender of Russian troops as being an impediment to the German advance. Unintended strategic advantage. Have seen original Ukrainian underground news letters denouncing Stalin and encouraging resistance or collaboration with the Germans. Did the Germans consider the long-term effect of these drugs on soldiers, after the war was over? I can probably guess the answer to that.

Germans took amphetamines before the war and also German soldiers asked parents and relatives to send more from the locla chemist. But when the war ended so did the drug usage. I cannot speak for those German soldiers in occupied Germany but the 2 million marched back to the USSR for labor did not receive drugs nor even adequate food. In 10 years most of them had died.