Messed Up Experiments That The Soviet Union Conducted

And so we turn to the final dog-torturing Soviet experiment, but not the final animal-tormenting experiment. This time, there's no supposedly pro-social aim like heart surgery or organ transplants. The goal, brought to life during the 1970s and '80s,was to create a group of nerve agents dubbed "Novichok," Russian for "newcomer." As theBBC notes, the

And so we turn to the final dog-torturing Soviet experiment, but not the final animal-tormenting experiment. This time, there's no supposedly pro-social aim like heart surgery or organ transplants. The goal, brought to life during the 1970s and '80s, was to create a group of nerve agents dubbed "Novichok," Russian for "newcomer." As the BBC notes, the existence of Novichok wasn't even confirmed until the 1990s when Dr. Vil Mirzayanov defected to the U.S. and brought Novichok's chemical formula with him. Novichok, it turns out, were fourth-generation nerve agents developed within a specific program under the codename Foliant.

Novichok was tested on dogs stuffed into cages by the hundreds, if not thousands, and forced to walk on tiny treadmills with gas masks strapped to their faces. It's unknown how long these tests were conducted, but we know, as Courier Mail reports, that the experiments took place at the benignly-named Chemical Research Institute, abandoned in 1992 following the collapse of the Soviet Union. Simply put, the dogs were exposed to Novichok to test the nerve agent's effects, which in humans includes convulsions, coma, nausea and vomiting, profuse sweating, shortness of breath, and eventually death.

In 2018, Novichok was deployed in a terrorist attack in the UK that left 21 hospitalized, as News Corp Australia reported. The target was former Russian double-agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia. Then-Prime Minister Teresa May accused Russia of the attack, but perhaps unsurprisingly, Vladimir Putin denied it.

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