Captain America, Meet Mother Russia: Soviets Had World War II ‘Super Soldiers’ | Danger Room | Wired.com
A Pravda article claims Soviet scientists implanted electrodes in the brains of 300 unwitting subjects between 1936 and 1941 and gave them titanium-reinforced bones to create super soldiers, a story that collapses under scrutiny because the attributed source (historian Jeff Strasberg) appears not to exist and the science makes no sense. The piece is clearly fabricated propaganda timed to rival Marvel's Captain America franchise, plagiarizing plot elements from the Winter Soldier comics while ignoring that the Soviets actually had their own comic-book super soldier in the Red Guardian.