THE DEVIL'S KITCHEN #731: EXPERIMENTS ON LIVING PEOPLE

Were there specialists and workers of "detachment 731" normal people? It's hard to comprehend, but - yes, conducting monstrous experiments on their own kind, they were normal. Many came to the "detachment" with their families - to work and do research. Many among them were those who, receiving a good salary for their work, sent money to Japan - for the education of younger brothers and sisters or for the treatment of their parents.

A former employee of the detachment said: “We had no doubt that we were waging this war so that poor Japan would become rich, in order to promote peace in Asia ... We believed that “logs” were not people, that they were even lower than cattle. Among those who worked there was no one in the detachment of scientists and researchers who sympathized with the "logs" in any way. Everyone - both military personnel and civilian detachments - believed that the extermination of "logs" was a completely natural matter.

They were constantly told that "experimental material" or, as they said here, "logs" were worthy only of death. And the staff of the detachment did not even have a shadow of a doubt about this. But, judging by some interviews with former employees of the detachment, which Morimura conducted, they still had an epiphany - however, after decades. And despair.

"Logs" are prisoners who were in "detachment 731". Among them were Russians, Chinese, Mongols, Koreans, who were captured by the gendarmerie or special services of the Kwantung Army.

The gendarmerie and special services captured Soviet citizens who found themselves on Chinese territory, commanders and soldiers of the Chinese Red Army who were captured during the fighting, and also arrested members of the anti-Japanese movement: Chinese journalists, scientists, workers, students and their families. All these prisoners were to be sent to a special prison of "detachment 731".

"Logs" did not need human names. All prisoners of the detachment were given three-digit numbers, according to which they were distributed among operational research groups as material for experiments.

The groups were not interested in either the past of these people, or even their age.

In the gendarmerie, before being sent to the detachment, no matter how cruel interrogations they were subjected to, they were still people who had a language and who had to speak. But from the time these people got into the detachment, they became just experimental material - "logs", and none of them could get out of there alive.

"Logs" were also women - Russians, Chinese - captured on suspicion of anti-Japanese sentiments. Women were used mainly for research on venereal diseases.

In the center of the "ro" block was a two-story concrete structure. Inside it was surrounded by corridors, where the doors of the cells opened. Each door had a viewing window. This structure, which communicated with the premises of operational research groups, was a "log warehouse", that is, a special detachment prison.

According to the testimony of the defendant Kawashima at the Khabarovsk trial in 1949, there were always 200 to 300 "logs" in the detachment, although these figures are not known exactly.

"Logs", depending on the purpose of research, were placed in separate chambers or common. From 3 to 10 people were kept in common cells.

Upon arrival at the detachment, all torture and ill-treatment to which the prisoners were subjected in the gendarmerie ceased. "Logs" were not interrogated, they were not forced to do hard work. Moreover, they were well fed: they received full three meals a day, which sometimes included dessert - fruits, etc. They had the opportunity to sleep enough, they were given vitamins. The prisoners were to recover their strength and become physically healthy as soon as possible.

The "logs" that received abundant food quickly recovered, they had no work. From the moment they began to be used for experiments, either certain death awaited them, or suffering comparable only to the torments of hell. And before that, empty days dragged on, similar to one another. "Logs" languished from forced idleness.

But the days when they were well fed passed quickly.

The circulation of "logs" was very intense. On average, every two days, three new people became test subjects.

Later, the Khabarovsk trial in the case of former servicemen of the Japanese army, based on the testimony of the defendant Kawashima, will register in their documents that for the period from 1940 to 1945

"detachment 731" was "consumed" at least three thousand people. In reality, this number was even higher, - the former employees of the detachment unanimously testified.

The Kwantung Army highly valued the special secret missions carried out by Detachment 731 and took every measure to ensure it. research work everything necessary.

Among these measures was the uninterrupted supply of "logs".

People, when it was their turn to become experimental subjects, were inoculated with the bacteria of plague, cholera, typhoid, dysentery, syphilis spirochete, and other cultures of live bacteria. They were introduced into the body with food or in some other way. Experiments were also conducted on frostbite, infection with gas gangrene, executions were carried out for experimental purposes.

Seiichi Morimura, as a result of long and painstaking work, managed to collect, probably, the most full list conducted in the "detachment 731" experiments. Reading them short description you realize how far the exploration of human potential can go. And this description makes my hair stand on end.

<Изуверские вскрытия живых людей проводились в отряде для ответа на следующие вопросы: когда человек подвергается эпидемическому заражению, увеличивается его сердце или нет, как изменяется цвет печени, какие изменения происходят в живой ткани каждой части тела?

Another purpose of the autopsy of a living person was to study the various changes that occurred in the internal organs after the “logs” were injected with certain chemicals. What processes occur in the organs when air is introduced into the veins? It was known that this entailed death, but the squad members were interested in more detailed processes. After how many hours and minutes will death occur if the "log" is hung upside down, how do various internal organs change in this case? Such experiments were also carried out: people were placed in a centrifuge and rotated at high speed until death occurred. How will the human body react if urine or horse blood is injected into the kidneys? Experiments were carried out to replace human blood with the blood of monkeys or horses. It was found out how much blood can be pumped out of one "log". The blood was pumped out with a pump. Everything was literally squeezed out of a person. What happens when a person's lungs fill with smoke? What happens if smoke is replaced with poisonous gas? What changes will occur if poisonous gas or rotting tissue is introduced into the stomach of a living person?

Sadists in white coats were interested in many things. Overshadowed by another diabolical thought, the "medics" called the prison and made an order: "Pick up healthy" logs "of any physique at your discretion and send 20 pieces." A real hell awaited each of them.

An experimental person was placed in a vacuum pressure chamber and the air was gradually pumped out, - one of the trainees recalls. - As the difference between the external pressure and the pressure in the internal organs increased, his eyes first popped out, then his face swelled to the size of a large ball, the blood vessels swelled like snakes, and the intestines began to crawl out. Finally, the man just exploded alive...

All this was filmed - this is how the height ceiling for pilots was determined.

During that period, there were quite a few cases of frostbite among the soldiers of the Kwantung Army. The detachment wanted to collect data as soon as possible on the process of frostbite, methods of its treatment, as well as on how bacterial infection proceeds in severe frosts.

Freezing experiments were carried out in the detachment from November to March, - says an eyewitness. - At temperatures below minus 20, the experimental people were taken out into the yard at night, forced to lower their bare arms or legs into a barrel of cold water, and then put under artificial wind until they got frostbite. After that, with a small stick, they pounded on the hands until they made the sound of a plank ...

Witnesses recall that the hands of the experimental subjects were literally taken away before our eyes: at first they turned white, then reddened, covered with blisters. Finally, the skin turned black and paralysis set in. Only then were the martyrs returned to a warm room and thawed with water. If her temperature was above plus 15, dead skin and muscles fell off, bones were exposed. Now only amputation of mutilated limbs could save from gangrene.

Someone suffered another terrible fate: they were turned into mummies alive - they were placed in a hotly heated room with low humidity. The man sweated profusely, but was not allowed to drink until he was completely dry. Then the body was weighed, and it turned out that it weighed about 22 percent of the original. That is how another "discovery" was made in "Squad 731": the human body is 78% water.

Death Valley Accusation of the USSR in experiments on people

"Valley of Death" - a documentary story about special uranium camps in the Magadan region. Doctors in this top-secret zone conducted criminal experiments on the brains of prisoners.

Revealing Nazi Germany of genocide, the Soviet government, in deep secrecy, at the state level, put into practice an equally monstrous program. It was in such camps, under an agreement with the VKPB, that Hitler's special brigades were trained and gained experience in the mid-30s.

The results of this investigation were widely covered by many world media. Alexander Solzhenitsin also participated in a special TV show hosted live by the NHK of Japan (by phone).

"Valley of Death" is a rare piece of evidence that captures the true face of Soviet power and its vanguard: VChK-NKVD-MGB-KGB.

Attention! This page shows photographs of a human brain autopsy. Please do not view this page if you are an excitable person, suffer from any form of mental disorder, if you are pregnant or under 18 years of age.

If you line up all the people who "at the call of the party" looked at the sky through the prison bars of the Gulag, then this living tape will stretch to the moon.

I have seen many concentration camps. Both old and new. I spent several years in one of them. Then I studied the history of the camps of the Soviet Union according to archival documents, but I ended up in the most terrible one a year before the moment when the KGB forced me to flee the country. This camp was called "Butugychag", which in translation from the language of Russian northern peoples means "Valley of Death".

Butugychag, where they were not buried, but thrown off a cliff. There were pits dug. Oksana went there when she was free (see). What should be there to surprise a person who has served 10 years! I saw an old man there: he was walking behind the zone, crying. He served 15 years, does not return home, walks here, begging. Said this is your future.

(Nina Hagen-Thorn)

The place got its name when hunters and nomadic tribes of reindeer herders from the families of Egorovs, Dyachkovs and Krokhalevs, roaming along the Detrin River, came across a huge field dotted with human skulls and bones, and when the deer in the herd began to get sick with a strange disease - at first their wool fell out on legs, and then the animals lay down and could not get up. Mechanically, this name passed to the remains of the Beria camps of the 14th branch of the Gulag.

The zone is huge. It took me many hours to cross it from end to end. Buildings or their remains could be seen everywhere: along the main gorge, where the buildings of the enrichment factory stand; in many lateral mountain branches; behind neighboring hills, densely indented with scars of search pits and holes in adits. In the village of Ust-Omchug, closest to the zone, I was warned that it was not safe to walk along the local hills - at any moment you could fall into the old adit.

The well-traveled road ended in front of the uranium enrichment plant, gaping with black gaps in the windows. There is nothing around. The radiation killed every living thing. Only moss grows on black stones. The poet Anatoly Zhigulin, who was sitting in this camp, said that at the furnaces, where water was evaporated from the uranium concentrate after washing on metal trays, the prisoners worked for one to two weeks, after which they died, and new slaves were driven to replace them. That was the level of radiation.

My Geiger counter came to life long before I got to the factory. In the building itself, it crackled without interruption. And when I approached the 23 metal barrels of concentrate that had been left against the outer wall, the danger signal became unbearably loud. Active construction went on here in the early 40s, when the question arose: who would be the first owner of atomic weapons.

From the wooden gate, with handles polished to a shine by the palms of convicts, I pass to the cemetery. Rare sticks stuck between boulders, with plaques-tablets. However, the inscriptions are no longer readable. Bleached, erased their time and wind.

“Recently, two operations were performed in the Magadan hospital during a conditional “gas attack”. The doctors, the medical staff who helped them and the patients put on gas masks. The operation was attended by surgeons Pulleritz and Sveshnikov, nurse Antonova, orderlies Karpenyuk and Terekhina. The first operation was performed by one of the fighters of the frontier detachment, who had an enlargement of the veins of the spermatic cord. Patient K. had his appendix removed. Both operations, together with preparation, took 65 minutes. The first experience in Kolyma of surgeons in gas masks was quite a success. "

Even if during the experiment a gas mask was also put on the patient, then what did the experimenters do with a hole open in the stomach?

So, moving from building to building, from the ruins of complexes obscure to me, concentrated at the bottom of the gorge, I climb to the very top of the ridge, to a solitary standing, intact camp. A piercingly cold wind drives low clouds. Latitude of Alaska. Summer is here, at most, two months a year. And in winter, the frost is such that if you pour water from the second floor, then ice falls to the ground.

Rusty tin cans rumbled underfoot near the soldier's tower. Picked up one. There is also an inscription in English. This is stew. From America for Red Army soldiers at the front. And for the Soviet "internal troops". Did Roosevelt know who he was feeding?

I go into one of the barracks, crowded with bunk beds. Only they are very small. Even crouched, they can not fit. Maybe they are for women? Yes, the size is too small for women. But now, a rubber galosh caught my eye. She lay forlornly under the corner bunks. My God! The galosh fits completely in the palm of my hand. So, these are bunk beds for children! So I went to the other side of the ridge. Here, right behind the "Butugychag", there was a large women's camp "Bacchante", which functioned at the same time.

Remains are everywhere. Here and there fragments, joints of tibia bones come across.

In the burnt ruins, I stumbled upon a chest bone. Among the ribs, a porcelain crucible caught my attention - I worked with such in the biological laboratories of the university. The incomparable, sugary smell of human ashes oozes from under the stones...

"I am a geologist, and I know that the former zone is located in the region of a powerful polymetallic ore cluster. Here, in the interfluve of Detrin and Tenka, reserves of gold, silver, and cassiterite are concentrated. But Butugychag is also known for the manifestation of radioactive rocks, in particular, uranium. In my work, I have had to visit these places more than once. The enormous strength of the radioactive background is detrimental to all living things here. This is the reason for the tremendous mortality in the zone. Radiation at Butygychag is uneven. Somewhere it reaches a very high, extremely life-threatening level, but there are also places where the background is quite acceptable".

A. Rudnev. 1989

The day of research was over. I had to hurry down, where in the house of a modern power plant, at its caretaker, I found shelter for these days.

Victor, the owner of the house, was sitting on the porch when I wearily approached and sat down beside him.

Where were you, what did you see? he asked monosyllabically.

I told about the uranium factory, the children's camp, the mines.

And what are you looking for?

I narrowed my eyes, looked point-blank at the young master of the house.

Mine, under the letter "C" ...

You won't find. Previously, they knew where it was, but after the war, when the camps began to close, they blew everything up, and all Butugychag's plans disappeared from the geological department. Only the stories that the letter "Ts" was filled to the very top with the corpses of those who were shot remained.

He paused. - Yes, not in the mines, and not in the children's camps, the secret of "Butugychag". There's their secret, - Victor showed his hand in front of him. - Behind the river, you see. There was a laboratory complex. Strongly guarded.

What did they do in it?

And you go tomorrow to the upper cemetery. Look...

But before going to the mysterious cemetery, Victor and I examined the "laboratory complex".

The area is tiny. It was made up of several houses. All of them are diligently destroyed. Blasted to the ground. Only one strong end wall remained standing. It is strange: out of the entire huge number of buildings in "Butugychag", only the "infirmary" was destroyed - it was burned to the ground, yes, this zone.

The first thing I saw were the remains of a powerful ventilation system with characteristic bells. Such systems are equipped with fume hoods in all chemical and biological laboratories. Four rows of barbed wire perimeter stretched around the foundations of the former buildings. It still survives in places. Inside the perimeter are poles with electrical insulators. It seems that a high voltage current was also used to protect the object.

Making my way among the ruins, I remembered the story of Sergei Nikolaev from the village of Ust-Omchug:

“Just before the entrance to Butugychag there was Object No. 14. We didn’t know what they were doing there. But this zone was guarded especially carefully. ". But in order to get to object No. 14, one more was needed - a special pass and with it it was necessary to go through nine checkpoints. Everywhere sentries with dogs. On the hills around - machine gunners: the mouse will not slip through. No. 14 "specially built nearby airfield".

Indeed, a top-secret object.

Yes, the bombers knew their business. There is little left. True, the nearby prison building survived, or, as it is called in the documents of the Gulag, "BUR" - a high-security barrack. It is composed of roughly hewn stone boulders, covered from the inside of the building with a thick layer of plaster. On the remains of the plaster in two chambers, we found the inscriptions scratched with a nail: "30.XI.1954. Evening", "Kill me" and an inscription in Latin script, in one word: "Doctor".

Horse skulls were an interesting find. I counted 11 of them. About five or six lay inside the foundation of one of the blown up buildings.

"I personally visited many enterprises in those years and I know that even for the removal of timber from the hills, for all affairs, not to mention mountain work, one type of labor was used - the manual labor of prisoners ..." From the answer of the former convict F Bezbabichev to the question of whether

how horses were used in the economy of the camps.

Well, at the dawn of the nuclear age, they might well have been trying to get an anti-radiation serum. And this cause, since the time of Louis Pasteur, it was the horses that served faithfully.

How long ago was that? After all, the Butugychag complex has been well preserved. The bulk of the camps in the Kolyma were closed after the "exposure" and execution of their godfather - Lavrenty Beria. In the weather station house, which stands above the children's camp, I managed to find an observation log. The last date stamped on it is May 1956.

Why are these ruins called a laboratory? I asked Victor.

Once a car with three passengers drove up, - he began to tell, clearing in the weeds, among the broken tiles, another horse skull. There was a woman with them. And although guests are rare here, they did not name themselves. They got out of the car at my house, looked around, and then, a woman, pointing to the ruins, said: "Here was a laboratory. And over there - an airport ...".

They did not stay long, and they could not be asked about anything. But all three are aged, well dressed...

A female doctor saved my life when I was imprisoned in one of the most terrible mines in Kolyma - "Butugychag". Her name was Maria Antonovna, her last name was unknown to us ...

(From the memoirs of Fyodor Bezbabichev)

The Berlag camps were especially secret and is it any wonder that no official data on their prisoners can be obtained. But there are archives. The KGB, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the party archives - lists of prisoners are stored somewhere. In the meantime, only scanty, fragmentary data suggest a carefully erased trail. Exploring the abandoned Kolyma camps, I looked through thousands of newspapers and archival references, getting closer and closer to the truth.

The writer Asir Sandler, the author of "Knots for Memory" published in the USSR, told me that one of his readers was a prisoner of a mysterious sharashka, a scientific institution in which prisoners worked. It was somewhere in the vicinity of Magadan...

The secret of the "Butugychag" complex was revealed the next day, when, with difficulty navigating the intricacies of the ridges, we climbed a mountain saddle. It was this secluded place that the camp administration chose for one of the cemeteries. Two others: "officer's" - for the camp staff and, possibly, for civilians, as well as a large "Zekov's" - are located below. The first is near the processing plant. The belonging of his dead to the administration is given out by wooden pedestals with stars. The second begins immediately outside the walls of the burnt infirmary, which is understandable. Why drag the dead over the mountains ... And here, from the central part, at least a mile. Yes, even up.

Slightly noticeable mounds. They can be mistaken for a natural relief, if they were not numbered. As soon as they sprinkled gravel on the dead man, they stuck a stick next to it with a number punched on the lid of a can of stew. But where do the convicts get canned food from? Two-digit numbers with a letter of the alphabet: Г45; B27; A50...

But, closer to the edge of the saddle, I find marks of a different type. There are no individual mounds here. On a flat area, the posts are dense, like the teeth of a comb. Ordinary short sticks - branches of chopped trees. Already without tin covers and numbers. Just mark the place.

Two swollen mounds indicate the pits where the dead were dumped in a heap. Most likely, this "ritual" was carried out in winter, when it was not possible to bury each one separately, in frozen and hard as concrete soil. The pits, in this case, were harvested from the summer.

And here's what Victor was talking about. Under the elfin bush, in a grave torn apart by animals or people, lies a half of a human skull. The upper part of the vault, half an inch above the brow ridges, is neatly and evenly cut. Clearly a surgical cut.

Among them are many other bones of the skeleton, but what attracts my attention is the upper cut off part of the skull with a bullet hole in the back of the head. This is a very important find, because it indicates that the opened skulls are not a medical examination to determine the cause of death. Who first puts a bullet in the back of the head, and then performs an anatomical autopsy to determine the cause of death?

We need to open one of the graves, - I say to my fellow traveler. - You need to make sure that this is not the "work" of today's vandals. Victor himself told about the raids on the camp cemeteries of the village punks: they take out skulls and make lamps out of them.

We select the grave under the number "G47". Didn't have to dig. Literally five centimeters through the soil thawed over the summer, the sapper shovel hit something.

Carefully! Don't damage the bones.

Coffin?! I was amazed. A coffin for a convict is as unseen as if we stumbled upon the remains of an alien. This is truly an amazing cemetery.

Never, nowhere in the vast expanses of the Gulag, were prisoners buried in coffins. They threw them into adits, buried them in the ground, and in winter they simply buried them in the snow, drowned them in the sea, but so that coffins would be made for them?! .. Yes, it looks like this is a "sharashki" cemetery. Then the presence of coffins is understandable. After all, the convicts were buried by the convicts themselves. And they were not supposed to see the opened heads.

In 1942 there was a stage in the Tenkinsky district, where I also ended up. The road to Tenka began to be built sometime in 1939, when Commissar 2nd Rank Pavlov became the head of Dalstroy, and Colonel Garanin became the head of USVITL. Everyone who fell into the clutches of the NKVD was first of all fingerprinted. This was the beginning of the camp life of any person. This is how she ended. When a person died in a prison or camp, then he, already dead, went through exactly the same procedure. Fingerprints were taken of the deceased, they were compared with the original ones, and only after that he was buried, and the case was transferred

to the archive.

(From the memoirs of s / c Vadim Kozin)

At the north end of the cemetery, the ground is littered with bones. Clavicles, ribs, tibia, vertebrae. All over the field, halves of skulls turn white. Straight cut over toothless jaws. Big, small, but equally restless, thrown out of the ground by an evil hand, they lie under the piercing blue sky of Kolyma. Is it possible that such a terrible fate dominated their owners that even the bones of these people are doomed to reproach? And it still pulls here with the stench of bloody years.

Again a series of questions: who needed the brains of these unfortunates? What years? By whose command? Who the hell are these "scientists" who, with ease, like a hare, put a bullet into a human head, and then, with devilish meticulousness, gutted the still smoking brains? And where are the archives? How many masks does it take to judge the Soviet system for the crime called genocide?

None of the well-known encyclopedias provides data on experiments on living human material, except to look in the materials of the Nuremberg trials. Only the following is obvious: it was precisely in those years when the Butugychag was functioning that the effect of radioactivity on the human body was intensively studied. There can be no talk of any autopsies of those who died in the camps for a medical report on the causes of death. None of the camps did this. A human life was worth negligibly cheap in Soviet Russia.

The trepanation of skulls could not be carried out on the initiative of local authorities. Lavrenty Beria and Igor Kurchatov were personally responsible for the nuclear weapons program and everything connected with it.

It remains to assume the existence of a successfully implemented state program, sanctioned at the level of the government of the USSR. For similar crimes against humanity, "Nazis" are being chased around Latin America to this day. But only in relation to domestic executioners and misanthropes, their native department shows enviable deafness and blindness. Is it because the sons of executioners are sitting in warm armchairs today?

Little touch. Histological studies are carried out on the brain, extracted no more than a few minutes after death. Ideally, in vivo. Any method of killing gives a "not clean" picture, since a whole complex of enzymes and other substances appear in the brain tissues, released during pain and psychological shock.

Moreover, the purity of the experiment is violated by the euthanasia of the experimental animal or the introduction of psychotropic drugs into it. The only method used in biological laboratory practice for such experiments is decapitation - almost instantaneous cutting off of the animal's head from the body.

I took with me two fragments from different skulls, for examination. Fortunately, there was a familiar prosecutor in the Khabarovsk Territory - Valentin Stepankov (later - the Prosecutor General of Russia).

You understand what it smells like, - the prosecutor of the region with the badge of a member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR on the lapel of his jacket looked at me, lowering the sheet with my questions for the expert. - Yes, and according to the affiliation, the Magadan prosecutor's office, and not mine, should deal with this case ...

I was silent.

Okay, Stepankov nodded, - I also have a conscience. And he pressed the button on the table.

Prepare a decision to initiate a criminal case, - he turned to the newcomer. And again to me: - Otherwise, I can not send the bones for examination.

What's the deal? the assistant asked.

Pass it on to the people of Magadan...

I repeat, those responsible for the death of those prisoners who were sent under the numbers of the letter thousand "3-2" live in Magadan, of which 36 people survived in one winter.

(P. Martynov, prisoner of the Kolyma camps No. 3-2-989)

The conclusion of the examination 221-FT, I received a month later. Here is his abridged summary:

"The right part of the skull, presented for research, belongs to the body of a young man, no more than 30 years old. The sutures of the skull between the bones are not closed. Anatomical and morphological features indicate that the bone belongs to a part of the male skull with characteristic features of the Caucasoid race.

The presence of multiple defects in the compact layer (multiple, deep cracks, areas of scarification), their complete fatlessness, white color, fragility and brittleness, indicate the prescription of the death of the man who owned the skull, 35 years or more from the moment of the study.

The smooth upper edges of the frontal and temporal bones were formed from sawing them, as evidenced by the traces of sliding - tracks from the action of a sawing tool (for example, a saw). Given the location of the cut on the bones and its direction, I believe that this cut could have been formed during an anatomical examination of the skull and brain.

Part of the skull number 2, more likely belonged to a young woman. The even upper edge on the frontal bone was formed by cutting a sawing tool - a saw, as evidenced by step-like slip marks - routes.

Part of the skull No. 2, judging by the less altered bone tissue, was in the burial places for less time than part of the skull No. 1, given that both parts were in the same conditions (climatic, soil, etc.)"

Forensic medical expert V. A. Kuzmin.

Khabarovsk Regional Bureau of Forensic Medical Examination.

My search didn't end there. I visited "Butugychag" two more times. More and more interesting materials fell into the hands. Witnesses appeared.

P. Martynov, a prisoner of the Kolyma camps under the number 3-2-989, points to the direct physical extermination of the Butugychag prisoners: “Their remains were buried at the Shaitan pass. they cleaned the remains of the animals pulled from the glacier on the pass, where even today human bones are found on a huge area ... "

Perhaps there you need to look for an adit under the letter "C"?

We managed to get interesting information from the editorial office of the Leninskoye Znamya newspaper in Ust-Omchug (now the newspaper is called Tenka), where a large mining and processing plant is located - Tenkinsky GOK, to which Butugychag belonged.

The journalists handed me a note from Semyon Gromov, the former deputy director of the Mining and Processing Plant. The note touched upon a topic of interest to me. But, perhaps, the price of this information was Gromov's life.

Here is the text of this note:

"The daily "withdrawal" along the Tenlagh was 300 convicts. The main reasons were hunger, illness, fights between prisoners and just" the convoy fired. "A OP was organized at the Tymoshenko mine - a health center for those who had already "reached." This point, of course, he did not heal anyone, but some professor worked there with the prisoners: he went and drew circles on the robes of prisoners with a pencil - these will die tomorrow. By the way, on the other side of the road, on a small plateau, there is a strange cemetery. Strange because everyone , buried there, the skulls have been sawn apart. Isn't this connected with the professor's work?"

Semyon Gromov recorded this in the early 80s and soon died in a car accident.

I also got another document from the GOK - the results of radiological studies at the Butugychag facility, as well as measurements of the radioactivity of objects. All these documents were strictly confidential. When the US War Department, at my request, requested a geological map of the area, even the CIA denied the presence of uranium mining in these places. And I visited six special facilities of the uranium Gulag of the Magadan region, and one of the camps is located at the very edge of the Arctic Ocean, not far from the polar city of Pevek.

I found Khasana Niyazov already in 1989, when perestroika and glasnost relieved the fear of many. The 73-year-old woman was not afraid to give an hour-long interview in front of a TV camera.

From the recording of the interview with H. Niyazova:

H.N. - I have not been to Butugychag, God bless. We considered it a penal camp.

How were the prisoners buried?

H.N. - No way. Sprinkled with earth or snow if he died in winter, and that's it.

Were there coffins?

H.N. - Never. What coffins are there!

Why are all the convicts buried in coffins at one of the three cemeteries of "Butugychag" and their skulls have been sawn apart?

H.N. - It was opened by doctors ...

For what purpose?

H.N. - We, among the prisoners, were talking: they were doing experiments. Learned something.

Was this done only in Butugychag, or somewhere else?

H.N. - Not. Only in "Butugychag".

When did you learn about the experiments at Butugychag?

H.N. - It was around 1948-49, the conversations were fleeting, but we were all frightened by this ...

Maybe it was sawed alive?

H.N. - And who knows... There was a very large medical unit. There were even professors...

I interviewed Hasan Niyazov after my second visit to Butugychag. Listening to the courageous woman, I looked at her hands with the camp number burned out.

It can't be! - then exclaim Jak Sheahan, - the chief of the CBS News bureau, peering at the screen and not believing his eyes. - I always thought that it was only in the fascist camps ...

Soviet researchers in the 1940s kept 5 people awake for 15 days using an experimental stimulant gas. These people were kept in a locked cell to monitor the oxygen balance in the cell, as the gas was toxic in large doses. At that time there were no video cameras for observation, so all that the experimenters could afford were microphones inside the room with the subjects and holes in the walls covered with thick five-inch glass. The cell contained books, beds to sleep without bedding, running water, a toilet, and enough dry food to live for a month. The subjects were political prisoners during World War II. In the first 5 days everything was fine, the subjects hardly complained, as they were promised (by lying) that they would be released at the end of the experiment if they did not fall asleep within a month. All their negotiations and actions were under surveillance. It was noted that over time, their conversations became more and more dominated by gloomy topics associated with unpleasant memories. After 5 days, they began to complain about the events that led them to their current state and began to show extreme paranoia. Having ceased to communicate with each other, they began to report in a whisper on their cellmates into microphones. Oddly enough, they thought they could gain the experimenters' trust by betraying their friends. At first, the scientists thought that it was the action of the gas itself... On the tenth day, one of them began to scream. He ran all over the cell screaming from time to time for 3 hours and tried to scream more, but apparently damaged his vocal cords. The most surprising thing is that the rest did not react to this at all. They continued to whisper into the microphones until the second of them followed the example of the first and began to shout. The rest tore out the sheets of their books and, having wetted them with saliva, covered the windows in the cell. For a while, the shouting and whispering into the microphones stopped. For the next three days, not a single sound came from the cells. The researchers did not stop monitoring the level of oxygen consumption, and it was high, as if all five were exercising. On the morning of the 14th day, the researchers decided to take a step that they did not intend to take in order to get a reaction from the subjects - they turned to them through the speakers installed in the chamber, because. they feared that they had either died or were in a coma. The investigators said: "We are opening the chamber to test the microphones. Move away from the doors and lie down on the floor or you will be shot. Cooperation will lead to the release of one of you." To their surprise, the only answer was the phrase: "We no longer need freedom." chamber on day 15. All the stimulant gas was removed from the chamber and filled with fresh air.Immediately after that, 3 voices from the chamber began to pray for the return of the gas as if their life depended on it.The chamber was opened and soldiers were sent there to The subjects began to scream louder than before, and soon the soldiers, who saw what was going on inside, joined in. Four of the five victims of the experiment were alive, but their condition could hardly be called life.
Food supplies from day 5 were intact. Pieces of meat from the chest and legs of the body of the fifth plugged the drainage holes in the chamber, so that the chamber was flooded by 4 inches, and it was difficult to tell how much blood was taking from them. All four "survivors" were also missing a significant amount of muscle and skin torn from their bodies. Judging by the damage and exposed bones on the fingers, it could be said that they did it with their hands, and not with their teeth, as was originally supposed. Further research indicated that most, if not all, self-injured. The internal organs below the chest in all four were torn out. While the heart lay down

In the view of most people living in the post-Soviet space, the war crimes of Nazi Germany are associated with inhuman experiments on people. There is no doubt that the Nazi regime carried out similar experiments on prisoners. However, few people realize that Soviet scientists began such experiments a little earlier than their German counterparts.

To date, it is known about at least three programs for the creation of perfect weapons that Soviet scientists tried to implement. The question remains, how much more classified materials are stored in the archives of law enforcement agencies? Probably, most of the information classified as secret will never become public.

The last known experiment that took place in the USSR to create a super-soldier was a project to create a biorobot.

Advances in the field of transplantation forced scientists to apply new knowledge in the military field. Everyone knows about the experiments of Vladimir Demikhin, it was his success that allowed the idea of ​​​​creating a biorobot to arise.

So, a special apparatus was designed, called the ASZhL (Lebedev's Life Saving Apparatus). With a slight modification, the device was supposed to ensure the continued functioning of the head of a living being without a body.

Externally, the device was a special suit that allows you to put a severed head of a living creature in it, which would perform the duties of a pilot and obey simple orders. There are photographs proving that a similar suit was made.

It is not known how far these experiments went, but the project was closed a few years after the start of work in this area. Most likely, there were no positive results. Otherwise, the army of the Soviet Union would have been equipped with such "interesting weapons."

Titanium instead of bones

In 1945, American troops were able to capture a secret research center for Nazi scientists. In one of the rooms, the corpses of Soviet soldiers were found. Titanium pins were implanted into their bodies to replace bones and joints. At that moment, no one could have thought that these were not the experiments of German doctors. Only after interrogations by the doctors of this center did it become known that the Germans did not perform any such operations, but only studied ready-made samples. In the United States, a special department was immediately created, headed by Professor Strasberg. This department was engaged in the collection and analysis of information about similar experiments in the USSR.

The department headed by Strasberg managed to find data that in the 30s in the Union, by order of the party, a program was launched to create a perfect soldier. The results of these experiments were discovered by the US military in the Nazi laboratory.

Employees of this department managed to find out that more than 300 soldiers took part in this program, but the results were not very successful. The soldiers were replaced with bones and joints with titanium prostheses, but the survival rate of the material was very low. Also, most of the participants in the experiment could not endure the pain that occurred after the operation. Most of the participants in the experiment died.

The negative results did not cool the scientific fervor of the researchers, it was decided to make manipulations with the brain that would turn off the parts of the brain responsible for the perception of pain.

Special needles made of gold were implanted into the brains of the "volunteers".

After this operation, the soldier became immune to pain, which made it possible to significantly increase the success rate of operations to implant titanium bones into the human body. A side effect of manipulating the brain has become various mental disorders.

You can be suspicious of the information voiced by Professor Strasberg. However, in 1994, a doctor from Vitebsk Sergey Konovalenko, walking along the outskirts of the military cemetery, discovered a strange skeleton. The river washed away the old graves, and the contents were on the surface. Konovalenko discovered the remains of the skeleton, which were connected to a metal prosthesis. Upon a cursory examination, the doctor concluded that this prosthesis did not replace amputated limbs, but human bones. On one of the prostheses there was an engraving: “Kharkov. 1934. ASC 760978-Ts. He decided to go to the hospital and take the necessary tools to carry out the exhumation of the remains, but it started to rain, which washed the skeleton into the river ...

Half ape - half man

The next experiment to create a super-soldier is associated with the name of Academician Ivanov. The scientist was given the task of creating the first prototype of a cyborg. The Politburo became interested in the idea of ​​developing a new super-soldier who would have a significant superiority in power parameters over a person, be more resilient and easy to control. Scientific laboratories were located in French Guinea and in the reserve near Yalta. In his research, the academician decided to bring out a new kind of creature. He wanted to cross a man and a monkey. At first, the experiment consisted of injecting human sperm into a female monkey and using various drugs to stimulate the process of conception. However, the experiment failed.

After the first stage of the experiment and the subsequent failure, Academician Ivanov decided to change his approach. He decided to inject monkey sperm into women, but the result did not bring the desired success. The last attempt of the scientist was the natural fertilization of the participants in the experiment. It is not strange, but there were quite a lot of applicants. Mutual attempts were made to "conceive" the creature. In the case of a male / female, there were no special injuries, but when mating male / female, there were fatal outcomes for the latter.

The result of the experiments is doubtful. Academician Ivanov was arrested and shot, the research institute was dispersed.

To date, there are two versions regarding the reason for the end of the experiments. According to the first version, Academician Ivanov did not receive any result, which looks the most plausible. And secondly, Academician Ivanov got a result that apparently did not satisfy the government. All materials were classified and the experiment was closed. The question as to whether the scientist managed to bring out a new creature or not remains open.

Afghan experiences

Whether there were attempts to repeat this experiment, we do not know, but the concept of creating a super-soldier remained. New experiments began during the war in Afghanistan. This time, psychotropic substances were used, which were supposed to increase the stamina of the soldiers, make them more aggressive, and deprive them of the need for sleep and food. As a result of the experiment, a negative effect was observed. The soldier became able to operate in extreme conditions without food and sleep for more than a week, but after that coma and death followed.

There are also army tales that during the Chechen wars, special groups received similar drugs and then entire villages were destroyed in the rear of the militants. However, there is no confirmed information.

Based on the foregoing, it follows that the idea of ​​​​creating a super-soldier was in the air until the collapse of the Soviet Union. Only some experiments on the production of a "universal soldier" became known to the public. How many more projects are classified remains a mystery.

Do not think that the USSR is the only country that was engaged in such experiments. There are many powerful states in the world that also strive for world domination and it’s not a fact that now, somewhere in a secret laboratory, a model of a biorobot or a soldier devoid of all feelings and emotions is no longer being tested.

This is also a documented fact. In the 1930s and 1940s, a secret poison laboratory was operating in the NKVD-MGB, headed by Professor Grigory Mairanovsky. With the knowledge and direct guidance of Lavrenty Beria, its employees experimented on prisoners sentenced to death, testing them with various toxic substances and preparations (with a short break due to the outbreak of World War II; experiments were resumed in 1943).

The functioning of this laboratory is confirmed by the testimony of Mairanovsky and Beria themselves, given by them during the investigation, as well as by the testimony of other high-ranking employees of the Soviet special services who were convicted in the period of 30-50 years of the twentieth century. The exact number of prisoners killed in this way is not known, it is only clear that there were at least 150 of them (so many test reports have been preserved). Poisons were administered to convicts in various ways - orally, with the help of injections (including with needles hidden in umbrellas), people were shot with poisoned bullets (in the area of ​​\u200b\u200bnon-vital organs).

In 1951, Grigory Mairanovsky was arrested on a combination of charges, one of which was suspicion of an attempted conspiracy to overthrow the government. In 1953 he was sentenced to 10 years in the camps. All petitions for rehabilitation coming from Mairanovsky were left without satisfaction, referring to the fact that he was engaged in inhuman experiments on people. The professor served time “from start to finish”, after his release he was arrested again, was released only in 1962 and died 2 years later. Mairanovsky was forbidden to live in Moscow, in recent years he lived and worked in Makhachkala.