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The tendency to give those Dirty Commies from the Soviet Union technologies far beyond their Western counterparts in Cold War or futuristic settings (not that the U.S. is left out, as long as both sides are in a Lensman Arms Race). Expect lots of Nikola Tesla technology. Something of a Discredited Trope and usually only played for laughs. After the end of the Cold War, "abandoned Soviet experiments" was frequently used to Hand Wave the continued appearance of menacing communist super-weapons in a world that suddenly had fewer communists. It is worth noting that historically the most recognizable disciplines of any superscience — genetics and cybernetics — received a poor start in the U.S.S.R. as the Party proclaimed those "false sciences" for being "bourgeois" (which makes as much sense as Nazis dismissing Einsteinian relativity and the modern theory of the atom as "Jewish physics"). This stance wouldn't be lifted until Nikita Khrushchev took power and U.S.S.R.'s first computer was finished in the mid-1950s. The Soviet record on science includes astounding triumphs — they put the first human in space and contributed immensely to theoretical physics (there were several Soviet Nobel laureates in physics, including Andrei Sakharov and Lev Landau, and the Landau-Lifshitz textbooks on theoretical physics still remain among the best) — and also laughable failures, such as Lysenkoism and the abuse of psychiatry for "rehabilitation" purposes. The U.S.S.R. pioneered modern corrective eye surgery, yet fell behind in steel manufacturing, despite experimenting with it the longest. The Soviets, however, loved nuclear power — the world's first nuclear power plant to generate electricity for a power grid went online in the U.S.S.R. (too bad the Chernobyl accident ruined that reputation). Thus, this trope certainly has some basis in fact. Of course, the inconsistencies can be handwaved by the means of an Alternate Universe, as Command & Conquer: Red Alert testifies. Historically, this trope owes itself to the Soviet Union's relative international isolation, both self-imposed and external, secrecy (especially about anything military, and a lot of Soviet research was fully or partly military-related) and tendency of its enemies to assume the worst with the absence of information. In the broadest sense, historians of sciencenote distinct from the history of arts and humanities, termed the history of scholarship have concluded that even considering the destructive consequences of Lysenkoism and obstacles to publishing research, dialectical materialism — the philosophy that predates contemporary Marxism and serves as its scientific "foundation" — had an overall positive influence on scientific community of the U.S.S.R. and the world as a whole. Science is certainly a thing with acknowledge-able accomplishments attributed to the state, but it's a far cry from the entertaining medium of Soviet superscience. The common idea nowadays is that The New Russia won't be able to have anything vastly superior for awhile either due to economic problems and lack of funding, or the resulting lack of personnel. While there is some truth in this, Russia is still a huge industrially developed nation more-or-less tied with Germany as the largest economy in Europe, so it might be able to keep up though, which is largely what the Soviet Union did (the mass scale war in Ukraine since early 2022 has proven that Russia does have potent modern war technologies about as much as outdated ones as the war drags on). The fall of the Soviet Union is often used as a reason why long-abandoned Soviet Superscience is once again rearing its ugly head, it having been forgotten about, lost in the confusion or sold off by corrupt handlers in the post-Soviet restructuring of Russian society. Admittedly, the same story was used by many a charlatan in Russia as well. This trope is a form of Historical Villain Upgrade if the Soviets are portrayed as villains in the story. Stupid Jetpack Hitler is a Sister Trope, giving Those Wacky Nazis things like Powered Armor and Cool Airships, while Ghostapo could be a "cousin trope", in that it's a more mystical version of Stupid Jetpack Hitler. May be part of a Tesla Tech Timeline as Tesla tech has a sufficiently different aesthetic to the capitalist pigdogs' technology. All of these are culture-specific sub-disciplines of Mad Science. See also Closed Cities, which is where Soviet Superscience is created; they range from ordinary cities declared off-limits to foreigners to full-fledged Black Mesa-style complexes hidden in the lost mountains of Siberia. |
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Goldeneye has a satellite-launched EMP weapon taken over by criminal elements in the Soviet space program command. In Real Life, electronic warfare, including EMP weapons, was and still is a very active area of Russian military research, and theatre ballistic missiles with EMP warheads are actually in the field testing right now. |
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The video for Metallica's "All Nightmare Long" gives Soviet scientists Applied Phlebotinum that is used as regenerative medicine... and to cause a Zombie Apocalypse on the North American continent. | |
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Taken: In "Jacob and Jesse", Owen Crawford believes that the successful launch of Sputnik 1 is due to the Soviets capturing an alien ship and managing to determine how it works. | |
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In the first episode of The Tick (2001), the Tick and Arthur must thwart the Red Scare, a robot made in the 1970s by the Soviet Union, programmed to destroy the US President. Unaware of the present year however, the Red Scare seeks to destroy former President Carter. | |
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Blake and Mortimer: In "SOS Meteors", it's revealed that the Soviet Bloc has developed weather-control technology, which it uses to destabilize the climate of Western Europe in order to prepare for a military invasion. Why the Soviets didn't instead use it to improve their own weather is anyone's guess. | |
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Played straight in the Fringe episode "Earthling". Well, not exactly. Walter does mentions the Russians were up to their own Fringe Science during the Cold War, but the Monster of the Week in the episode was NOT their creation, but rather something that infected and bonded with one of their cosmonauts. |
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In The Return, we have a group of nuclear-powered cyborg Soviet female mercenary assassins. | |
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Firebase. The River God has cybernetic modifications from NVA surgeons. It's implied this technology (and that of the American characters) was developed by stealing it from more advanced realities, as an American soldier witnesses an alternate reality of Soviet forces invading the United States with advanced VTOL aircraft and massive land crawlers. | |
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Discussed and averted in The Laundry Files. Unlike the Nazis and the West, the Soviets never really got into the occult intelligence business because of counterproductive state policies. State-sponsored atheism contradicts the requirement of believing in demonic intelligences beyond our spacetime, and preventing development of computers makes "magic" (which is really applied higher mathematics, physics, and computer science) much more difficult. After the fall of communism, however, the Russians caught up fast. | |
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The "Kolossus" (a Colossal Titan Expy as a self-aware Humongous Mecha) from Mega Shark vs Kolossus are said to be a forgotten Soviet superweapon. | |
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Iron Man 2: Anton Vanko, a Soviet defector, co-developed the arc reactor technology with Tony's father in the 1960s. Otherwise generally averted in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, as projects that were examples of this in the comics are either Soviet or superscience, but not both: the Black Widow program was simply Training from Hell, while the Winter Soldier was a HYDRA project as opposed to Russian. | |
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In Sentinel Comics: The RPG, Soviet Super Science is responsible for the villain team Perestroika. To wit: Proletariet got his powers from Soviet experimentation with an Obliv Aeon shard. Same thing with a soviet villain named Iron Curtain, minus the Obliv Aeon shard thing. His daughter proceeded to inherit his powers. Marxman (cue rimshot) has been alive for years, also due to Soviet Superscience. And finally there's, of all things, Mecha Stalin. Whether or not he's the actual Stalin is ambiguous but the main point is that he is a Cyborg made by Soviet Superscience. |
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In the Necroscope books the Soviets have an advanced Psychic intelligence service (almost as advanced as the UK's one, the US doesn't get a look in). Their attempt at a Star Trek style Deflector Shield bubble to cover The Entire USSR and protect it from nuclear attack doesn't go well and in fact accidentally blows a hole in the fabric of space-time, creating a gateway to a vampire ridden hellhole. Erm, oopsie. | |
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The Ultimate Marvel series Ultimate Nightmare takes place almost entirely in a complex dedicated to this. They worked by disassembling an alien robot found in The Tunguska Event, piece by piece, and grafting its parts to test subjects. | |
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In Leviathan (1989) the Russians conduct an experiment aimed at breeding a new species - the aquatic man. The "volunteers" are soldiers, never informed of the fact, and the original experiment predictably turns out to have Gone Horribly Wrong, but when several Americans accidentally discover its remnants and mess with them, it eventually ends up Gone Horribly Right. | |
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Wolverine: Omega Red is the Soviet-era counterpart to Wolverine — a mutant whose powers were augmented by government-sponsored super-science, which in Red's case also gave him carbonadium Combat Tentacles. | |
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Vampire in the Garden takes place in a post apocalyptic setting modeled on the Soviet Union with mostly pre 1980's technology as well as mechas. | |
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The Red Room basically existed on this trope, being the Soviet answer to Hydra and, arguably, even more terrifying, considering that they gave the world both Black Widows (Natasha Romanoff and Yelena Belova) and the Winter Soldier. | |
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The Marvel Universe has its share of Soviet experiments gone awry, particularly from the days of the Cold War. The Red Room basically existed on this trope, being the Soviet answer to Hydra and, arguably, even more terrifying, considering that they gave the world both Black Widows (Natasha Romanoff and Yelena Belova) and the Winter Soldier. Iron Man: Soviet scientists trying to get a leg up on American engineering with bizarre creations like the Unicorn and the Titanium Man formed the glut of Iron Man's original Rogues Gallery. The original Crimson Dynamo was a Soviet scientist who invents a Powered Armor suit which also allows the wearer to control electricity. He subsequently defected and died keeping the Soviets from stealing his armor, though they later built newer models for other agents. The Incredible Hulk: The very first opponent who the Hulk fought (other than the U.S. Army), was the Gargoyle, a Soviet scientist warped into a deformed, large-headed, super-intelligent dwarf by exposure to radiation. His son, the Gremlin, was almost identical in looks and abilities and, among other things, created the high-tech gear (including Powered Armor) used by the Soviet Super-Troopers (precursors to the Soviet Super-Soldiers). While Bullski (above) was missing, the Gremlin built his own Titanium Man armor... and then made the mistake of incorporating Tony Stark's technology into it (although he was given said tech by the Soviet government, who'd presumably acquired it from Justin Hammer, who had it stolen from Stark). As a result, Tony targeted him in Armor Wars, leading to the Gremlin's accidental death. Secret Warps: Weapon Hex has to go up against the Mad Ghost, a Communist supervillain with an army of android apes, who plans to use his super-science to make Weapon Hex and her sister serve the state, one way or another. Wolverine: Omega Red is the Soviet-era counterpart to Wolverine — a mutant whose powers were augmented by government-sponsored super-science, which in Red's case also gave him carbonadium Combat Tentacles. The Ultimate Marvel series Ultimate Nightmare takes place almost entirely in a complex dedicated to this. They worked by disassembling an alien robot found in The Tunguska Event, piece by piece, and grafting its parts to test subjects. |
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Another 2000 AD strip, ABC Warriors, has the Volgans, who are similar in the above respect. | |
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Iron Man: Soviet scientists trying to get a leg up on American engineering with bizarre creations like the Unicorn and the Titanium Man formed the glut of Iron Man's original Rogues Gallery. The original Crimson Dynamo was a Soviet scientist who invents a Powered Armor suit which also allows the wearer to control electricity. He subsequently defected and died keeping the Soviets from stealing his armor, though they later built newer models for other agents. |
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In the X-Men Film Series, the telepathy-blocking helmet that stymies Xavier in every movie is apparently of Russian make according to X-Men: First Class. | |
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The 2005 Russian mockumentary Pervye Na Lune (First on the Moon) shows "proof" that the Soviets actually sent a man to the Moon and back... in 1938... | |
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Apocryphal, but in a panel discussing Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure Battle Tendency, author Hirohiko Araki clarified that the superpowered cyborg Colonel Stroheim fell in the Battle of Stalingrad at the hands of a Soviet Stand user. | |
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In Archer, the KGB captures Barry when he is grievously injured (thanks to Archer) and rebuilds him into a cyborg hellbent on getting revenge on Archer. | |
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Conspiracy X: Project Rasputin was the Soviet answer to American research projects on national and global paranormal threats, with the real historical early 1950s Soviet research into extrasensory perception being fully incorporated into canon. | |
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The Russian superhero film Guardians (2017) has the titular four-person team be composed of representatives of four of the former Soviet republics, all of which were subjects to experimentation by Soviet scientists not long before the collapse of the USSR (a newspaper is shown with the headline "Genetics in service of the people"). The team includes a werebear, a speedster, an earth elemental, and a woman who has invisibility, flexibility, temperature resistance, and doesn't need air. And the Big Bad is a former Soviet superscientist, who has turned himself into a cyborg and can manipulate any technology he sees and has a clone army. | |
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The first comic in the Global Frequency series is about a Soviet sleeper agent who loses control of a chip implanted in his brain. The chip was supposed to augment his natural ability to teleport objects. This would have allowed the agent to teleport a hidden nuclear weapon to his location — with himself ground zero. Global Frequency was formed to deal with exactly these kinds of strange Cold War "unexploded bombs". | |
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In WarGames, the simulated war at one point includes twenty-two Typhoon-class submarines departing Petropavlovsk. In fact, the Soviets only ever built six Typhoon-class submarines, only one of which was in existence at the time the film was made. Also, none of them was ever based in Kamchatka. Given U.S. intelligence's tendency to overestimate Soviet military strength (see Real Life), it could be Joshua making the mistake in-universe. | |
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Harbinger Down opens with a Soviet LK moon lander Coming in Hot after an experiment to make a cosmonaut immune to radiation has Gone Horribly Wrong. | |
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Teen Titans (2003) has a supporting character, the Russian superhero Red Star, who's the product of a Cold War-Era Soviet project to develop the perfect Super-Soldier only to turn him into a living, walking nuclear reactor, besides rapidly decelerating his aging (hence, why someone born during the Cold War could be part of the "Teen" Titans). His debut have him nearly destroying a village in order to stop a rampaging monster, and he returns in subsequent episodes as allies to the Titans. | |
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In The Day of the Triffids, the narrator/protagonist advances the theory that the eponymous killer plants were created by Soviet bioengineers, but whether he is correct or not is never revealed. | |
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The Hunt for Red October is a thriller about, well, the hunt for the Red October, a highly-advanced Soviet ballistic missile submarine, the so-called "stealth-bomber" of submarines. Instead of the traditional propeller-driven sub, this one had one that sucked in water, compressed it, and shot it out, like a jet engine. The result is a sub with nearly zero-sound, meaning active Sonar will be almost the only thing able to detect it; making it virtually impossible to track, due to the danger of using active Sonar often. That doesn't stop Seaman Jones from inventing a way to track it though. | |
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Secret Warps: Weapon Hex has to go up against the Mad Ghost, a Communist supervillain with an army of android apes, who plans to use his super-science to make Weapon Hex and her sister serve the state, one way or another. | |
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The Incredible Hulk: The very first opponent who the Hulk fought (other than the U.S. Army), was the Gargoyle, a Soviet scientist warped into a deformed, large-headed, super-intelligent dwarf by exposure to radiation. His son, the Gremlin, was almost identical in looks and abilities and, among other things, created the high-tech gear (including Powered Armor) used by the Soviet Super-Troopers (precursors to the Soviet Super-Soldiers). While Bullski (above) was missing, the Gremlin built his own Titanium Man armor... and then made the mistake of incorporating Tony Stark's technology into it (although he was given said tech by the Soviet government, who'd presumably acquired it from Justin Hammer, who had it stolen from Stark). As a result, Tony targeted him in Armor Wars, leading to the Gremlin's accidental death. | |
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A major plot point in season three of Stranger Things concerns the Soviet Union's efforts to study and enter the Upside Down, presumably for the same reasons the Americans were doing so: to spy on their enemies. In a subversion, the American program wound up far ahead of theirs (at least, before things went horribly wrong) owing to the town of Hawkins, Indiana having very favorable conditions for accessing the Upside Down, causing the Soviets to send spies to Hawkins to piggy-back off the Americans' research. Through a front company and with the assistance of the corrupt mayor of Hawkins, they built the Starcourt Mall as a cover for an Elaborate Underground Base on US soil, where they attempt to open their own portal to the Upside Down. While exploring their base, Erica, a young girl filled with Reagan-era Patriotic Fervor and love of capitalism, mocks the base's design (particularly there being only one way in or out, via elevator) as a safety hazard, suggesting that they cut corners. The Stinger at the end of the season, showing that the Soviets have captured a live Demogorgon, implies that they have managed to open their own gate at a facility in Kamchatka, since creatures from the Upside Down cannot survive in our world without a direct link to their home dimension via an open portal. | |
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In Judge Dredd, the Spiritual Successors of the Soviet Union are the megacities East-Meg One and Two, which are at par with and occasionally ahead of western technology. | |
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Child of the Storm repeatedly references the Red Room as something dark and terrifying enough to scare HYDRA that existed in the shadows with the sole objective of developing better soldiers. They gave the world the Winter Soldier (as per the MCU, his original enhancements were the work of HYDRA and Arnim Zola, but the Red Room took him, refined him and reprogrammed him), the Black Widow program and a number of genetically altered monstrosities, including the Winter Guard. Despite the fact they haven't been active for twenty years, whenever they're mentioned, the characters present tend to, at the very least, get a severe case of the creeps. As of the sequel, Ghosts of the Past, they're back. And they're interested in Harry. With the help of Sinister, they end up successfully taking control of Harry's body and unleashing their intended Superior Successor to the Winter Soldier, the Red Son, a phenomenally powerful Super-Soldier capable of restoring the territorial control they had during the Cold War. Between Harry eventually snapping and going Dark Phoenix, and Loki's later Roaring Rampage of Revenge for what was done to his nephew, most Red Room personnel are either dead or imprisoned. | |
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In the novelette A Colder War, set in an Alternate History where the Cold War was fought with the powers of the Great Old Ones, the Soviets not only weaponize shoggoths and deploy them in Afghanistan, but they have an ultimate doomsday weapon called 'K-Thulu' in a giant concrete bunker in the Ukraine. | |
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The JAG episode "Iron Coffin" features the supercavitating Russian torpedo VA-111 Shkval (see real life below), which for an uninformed viewer might come across as pure fiction. However, the Shkval in the episode has a serious design flaw as it re-targets the submarine which launched it. The Americans have observed it before, but the Russians think the Americans are interfering. This example also counts on a meta level, as the real-life stock Shkval is unguided and is physically unable to re-target itself, being in effect an underwater rocket, but was given imaginary capabilities for the sake of drama. |
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Firefox has the Soviets build a new superplane, the MiG-31 (not to be confused with the Real Life MiG-31). This plane is capable of Mach 6 and has thought-launched weapons, technologies that still don't fully exist today. | |
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In Dr. Strangelove the Soviets build a Doomsday Device after the U.S. had already considered a similar device ("Our source was the New York Times"). They neglected to tell anyone about it. Strangelove subverts the trope when he explains that the Doomsday Machine is not a great feat because it's within the means of even the smallest nuclear power — very much Truth in Television, because setting off enough nukes anywhere on Earth would easily cause The End of the World as We Know It, and both sides had dozens of times that amount. | |
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In MARZENA, according to Marian, the Russian government of 2033 wants to use advanced psychology, along with a reborn and self-aware neuroscience and anti-Manchurian Agents, to destroy the cultural independence of the Balkans and create a giant invincible super-Russian state. | |
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The Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode "Go Fish" involves the coach of Sunnydale High's swim team feeding his athletes an experimental Soviet steroid that they developed for their Olympic swim team, which got leaked to the West at the end of the Cold War. Unfortunately, it has the nasty side-effect of turning its recipients into Fish People. | |
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull has Irina Spalko and her fellow Communists searching for the Crystal Skulls. It is mentioned that Stalin has a program investigating psychics, which isn't actually all that far-fetched; the US investigated possible paranormal things themselves. Also, the Soviet search party in the jungle rides a huge sci-fi-ish truck that clears its path by mowing down trees like grass. | |
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The Tick had the Russians working on a sentient beard, so the US developed a mustache. Another episode had the Kremlin domes doubling as ''missiles''. Presumably, it's supposed to be St. Basil's Cathedral, which westerners often mistake for the Kremlin. |
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Halloween Unspectacular: The story "Cold War", from the seventh edition, is built around a secret Soviet facility in Siberia. Originally commissioned by Stalin to create a weapon capable of matching the American nuclear arsenal, the experiments at this facility instead created a permanent portal to Another Dimension full of monsters. The base now exists solely to keep these monsters in check, fighting off their constant attacks, in order to keep them from overrunning Siberia (and, it's implied, the rest of the world). | |
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The Creepypasta The Russian Sleep Experiment involves five Soviet political prisoners during World War II being kept awake for fifteen days via an experimental gas, both as torture and as an experiment, the result of which is quite scary even to the scientists. | |
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Full Metal Panic! is set in an Alternate History where the Cold War never ended and both the United States and the Soviet Union have developed Arm Slave technology. Not only that, the Arm Slave technology is canonically a product of Soviet Superscience... albeit accidentally. The Whispered, from which the technology to build Arm Slaves came from, were created from a certain Russian-funded lab-base involved in superscience of all sorts. Specifically, the Whispered were people born around the world right around the few minutes one of the labs (of the quantum "see into the future" variety) had an accident and went out of control. |
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