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USSR Poison Project

USSR Poison Project

Did the Soviet Union develop secret toxins?

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Discover the history of alleged Soviet poison programs linked to agencies like the KGB during the Cold War. Explore how secret laboratories reportedly researched toxins and covert assassination methods. Accounts from defectors and investigations fueled long-standing speculation about these operations.

Ep 1:

The Blueprint of Soviet Mad Science

Explore the shocking true story of a Soviet-funded scientist who tried to breed human-ape hybrids as an atheist propaganda weapon, and the desperate volunteers and purges that ended it.

Ep 2:

Dr. Death and the Cell of Secrets

Inside a secret Moscow lab codenamed 'The Cell,' a chemist called Dr. Death tested undetectable poisons on prisoners—experiments so entrenched they may have reached all the way to Stalin's own death.

Ep 3:

Umbrellas, Needles, and Invisible Killers

After Stalin, Soviet assassins refined invisible murder into an art—cyanide guns, ricin pellets, and a poisoned umbrella on a London bridge—proving no dissident was ever truly safe.

Ep 4:

Polonium, Politics, and Putin's Shadow

Decades after the USSR collapsed, its poison legacy resurfaces through dioxin disfigurement and a radioactive cup of tea, exposing a modern Kremlin still silencing enemies abroad.

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Discussions (5)

Ashley

Level 2 · 5 mo ago

Beria 100% poisoned Stalin

Zachariah

Level 8 · 5 mo ago

The ricin umbrella was real.

Elaine

Level 2 · 5 mo ago

I completely disagree that those scientists were not monsters. Hearing how they treated animals and humans makes my blood boil. A corrupt system is no excuse.

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