Everything about Soviet Program Of Biological Weapons totally explained
==History==
1928 - Revolutionary Military Council signed a decree about weaponization of
typhus. Leningrad Military academy began cultivation of typhus in chicken embryos. Human experimentation with typhus,
glanders and
melioidosis in
Solovetsky camp. A laboratory on vaccine and serum research was also established near Moscow in
1928, within Military Chemical Agency. This laboratory was transformed to Red Army's Scientific Research Institute of Microbiology in
1933.
1941: Soviet bioweapons facilities are evacuated to the city of
Kirov.
1942: Alleged use of
tularemia against German troops.
1945: Japanese documentation from
unit 731 was captured.
1946: A biological weapons facility was established in
Sverdlovsk.
1953: Fifteenth directorate of Red Army takes responsibility for the program.
1973: A "civilian" main directorate
Biopreparat was founded. Other organizations involved in design and production of biological weapons were Soviet Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Health,
USSR Academy of Sciences, and
KGB.
1990s: specimens of deadly bacteria and viruses were stolen from Western laboratories and delivered by
Aeroflot planes to support Russian program of biological weapons. At least one of the pilots was a
Russian Foreign Intelligence Service officer"
Beginning of
2000s: Academician "A.S." proposed new biological warfare program "Biological Shield of Russia" to president
Vladimir Putin. The program reportedly includes institutes of Russian Academy of Sciences from
Pushchino
Developments after signing the Biological Weapons Convention
Soviet Union continued development and mass production of offensive biological weapons, despite having signed the
Biological Weapons Convention. The development and production was conducted by main directorate "
Biopreparat", Soviet Ministry of Defense, Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Health,
USSR Academy of Sciences, the
KGB, and other state organizations
Smallpox
The first
smallpox weapons factory in the
Soviet Union was established in
1947 in the city of
Zagorsk, close to
Moscow
A production line to manufacture smallpox on an industrial scale was launched in the
Vector Institute in
1990. The development of genetically altered strains of smallpox was presumably conducted in the Institute under leadership of Dr. Sergei Netyosov in the middle of the 1990s, according to
Kenneth Alibek
It was reported that Russia made smallpox available to Iraq in the beginning of 1990s.
Anthrax
Spores of weaponized
anthrax were accidentally released from a military facility near the city of
Sverdlovsk in
1979. The death toll was at least 105, but no one knows the exact number, because all hospital records and other evidence were destroyed by the
KGB, according to former
Biopreparat deputy director
Kenneth Alibek .
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