Atomic supermen?

This has got to be baloney, but I love it anyway: the news that Josef Stalin supposedly asked his scientists to cross-breed apes and humans to create a race of super warriors. Where's Ed Wood when you need him?

"I want a new invincible human being, insensitive to pain, resistant and indifferent about the quality of food they eat" Stalin is said to have told the scientist.

Sounds like he was talking about Australians. But seriously, it reminds me of a quip by a Polish wit as to why the English had succeeded in creating so great an empire. He explained it as "Indifference to climate, indifference to food, indifference to sex."