Russians Attempted Human-Chimpanzee Hybrid Soldiers After World War II

What was said

"There was a program that they do a lot of things where they just run it up the chain. What if we make a hybrid just for war? We know chimpanzees are incredibly strong and they're smart. What if we made an incredibly strong, very violent species that's more intelligent than chimpanzees, and we can control them, and we'll use them as our soldiers?"

Rogan discussed a Soviet-era program where scientist Ilya Ivanov attempted to create human-chimpanzee hybrids for military use, funded by Soviet authorities. The experiments involved artificially inseminating women with chimpanzee sperm and ultimately failed because human and chimp chromosomes are incompatible. Ivanov was later arrested and exiled to Kazakhstan.