This has already made the rounds of the blogosphere and come back around for second helpings, but what can I say? I can't pass up a brief comment on a story with a headline like"Stalin's half-man, half-ape super-warriors".

So here's my first reaction, naturally: How do we know he didn't succeed, hmmmm?

To paraphrase the well-known quote from Sir Arthur Eddington, "Not only is history stranger than we imagine, but history is stranger than we can imagine."