MarxSchmarx
18th May 2011, 01:33
So there's this book that just came out from a rather "mainstream" journalist that claims that the UFO that landed in Roswell in 1951 was a Soviet experimental airplane. So far nothing too outlandish, I suppose one could swallow that story.
But here's where things get really messed up. According to the book, apparently Mengele ended up working for the Soviet Union after the war, and that:
It dismisses the alien story and puts forward the theory that Stalin was inspired by Orson Wells’s famous radio adaptation of the HG Wells novel War of the Worlds, which provoked hysteria across America when broadcast in 1938... The Nazi doctor, who experimented on prisoners in Auschwitz and fled to South America after the war, was supposedly enlisted to create a crew of “grotesque, child-size aviators” in return for a eugenics laboratory. ...
“They found bodies alongside the crashed craft. These were not aliens. Nor were they consenting airmen. They were human guinea pigs. Unusually petite for pilots, they appeared to be children. Each was under five feet tall.
“They were grotesquely deformed, but each in the same manner as the others. They had unusually large heads and abnormally shaped oversize eyes.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/ufo/8512408/Roswell-was-Soviet-plot-to-create-US-panic.html
Now, either her single source for this is a troll deserving the Order of Lenin, or that the USSR and the USA schemed to experiment on people and hush up each others crimes isn't terribly preposterous. Apparently the (anonymous, single) source is quite impeccable on everything else and had risen rather high in the American government. In an interview she mentioned how the Americans would routinely experiment on mentally sick people, and perhaps the new crop of post-purging careerists in the Soviet military had little qualms about doing what it took in light of the German invasion still fresh in their minds.
What I don't know is how much Russian reaction to this there has been. Surely if there was a program like this in the USSR there would be records, and it seems a bit strange that with all the high profile defectors over the years and the like that nothing even remotely corroborative (like Mengele actually receiving a check from the Russians) emerged. Moreover, the soviet union briefly flirted with comparatively mild human experimentation (compared to what the Americans, Japanese and Germans did) in the form of trying (and failing spectacularly) to inseminate chimpanzee eggs with human sperm and abandoned it, for what that's worth. So for now I'm inclined to dismiss it.
Still, it's one of these really disturbing occurances in life that the more one thinks about, the less shocking it is that shit like this could have happened.
But here's where things get really messed up. According to the book, apparently Mengele ended up working for the Soviet Union after the war, and that:
It dismisses the alien story and puts forward the theory that Stalin was inspired by Orson Wells’s famous radio adaptation of the HG Wells novel War of the Worlds, which provoked hysteria across America when broadcast in 1938... The Nazi doctor, who experimented on prisoners in Auschwitz and fled to South America after the war, was supposedly enlisted to create a crew of “grotesque, child-size aviators” in return for a eugenics laboratory. ...
“They found bodies alongside the crashed craft. These were not aliens. Nor were they consenting airmen. They were human guinea pigs. Unusually petite for pilots, they appeared to be children. Each was under five feet tall.
“They were grotesquely deformed, but each in the same manner as the others. They had unusually large heads and abnormally shaped oversize eyes.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/ufo/8512408/Roswell-was-Soviet-plot-to-create-US-panic.html
Now, either her single source for this is a troll deserving the Order of Lenin, or that the USSR and the USA schemed to experiment on people and hush up each others crimes isn't terribly preposterous. Apparently the (anonymous, single) source is quite impeccable on everything else and had risen rather high in the American government. In an interview she mentioned how the Americans would routinely experiment on mentally sick people, and perhaps the new crop of post-purging careerists in the Soviet military had little qualms about doing what it took in light of the German invasion still fresh in their minds.
What I don't know is how much Russian reaction to this there has been. Surely if there was a program like this in the USSR there would be records, and it seems a bit strange that with all the high profile defectors over the years and the like that nothing even remotely corroborative (like Mengele actually receiving a check from the Russians) emerged. Moreover, the soviet union briefly flirted with comparatively mild human experimentation (compared to what the Americans, Japanese and Germans did) in the form of trying (and failing spectacularly) to inseminate chimpanzee eggs with human sperm and abandoned it, for what that's worth. So for now I'm inclined to dismiss it.
Still, it's one of these really disturbing occurances in life that the more one thinks about, the less shocking it is that shit like this could have happened.