Hidden deep in a Russian forest, and guarded by soldiers with orders to shoot intruders on sight, the medical research laboratories on the outskirts of Moscow were one of the Soviet Union's best-kept secrets. So the carefully-vetted journalists who were allowed past the forbidding perimeter fence on a cold February morning in 1954 were both apprehensive and curious about what lay ahead.
Led to a courtyard outside an austere brick building, they waited in the bright winter sunshine to find out why they had been summoned. What they eventually looked at was the strangest looking looking animal they had ever seen.
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