History Main / SovietSuperScience

* ''FreedomForce'' features [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Nuclear Winter]] who is a Soviet spy dunked in his own chemicals, ''FreedomForceVsTheThirdReich'' features Red October, who for some unexplained reason is a witch.

* ''CommandAndConquer Red Alert'' has Mind controlled squids, cloning vats, Weaponized Tesla Coils, six-legged amphibious DOUBLE tesla armed walkers, armoured war bears, huge zeppelins with megaton bombs, nuclear vacuum ICBMs, weapon-stealing tanks, magnetic sattelites [[BeyondTheImpossible AND MORE]].

** A mention should also be made of the mind-control radio towers that drive the plot of ''Red Alert 2''
** This is far less noticeable in the first Red Alert, without expansions, partially because it has ''far'' less superscience overall, and partly because the Allies aren't far behind in superscience, a teleporter balancing out an invincibility generator, leaving only the weaponized Tesla coil to shift the balance in the Soviets' favour (and even then, a GPS system is arguably far enough into the future of the period for it to count as a sort of super-tech...). Then the expansions came out, and the Soviets had cyborg super-soldiers...

* The rather obscure {{RTS}} ''War Front: Turning Point'' has the Soviet Union using "canned Siberian weather" {{Freeze Ray}}s and Freeze Bombs, as well as house-sized tanks with [[TheresNoKillLikeOverkill ''five'' turrets]] and building-sized artillery guns. They even steal a [[StupidJetpackHitler German]] [[MiniMecha Exoskeleton]] at one point and jury-rig it with a freeze ray.

[[CommandAndConquer http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/TeslaTrooper1900x1200_8544.png]]

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experiments_in_the_Revival_of_Organisms Zombie dog!]]

* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experiments_in_the_Revival_of_Organisms Zombie dogs!]]

* {{Singularity}}, a time-travel and survival-horror-based game, features an island where Soviets were working on time-warping technology that never panned out...at least, until you unwittingly change the past and the USSR now rules the world.

[[caption-width:300:[[ResistanceIsFutile Resistance]] [[IncrediblyLamePun is futile]], Capitalist Pig-Dog!]]

* ''MetalGearSolid 3'' explains this way how can some relatively futuristic elements of the series, like the sneaking suit, can somehow exist in the mid-60's.

The fall of the Soviet Union is often used as a reason why long-abandoned SovietSuperscience is once again rearing it's ugly head, it having been forgotten about, lost in the confusion or sold off by corrupt handlers in the post-Soviet restructuring of Russian society.

StupidJetpackHitler is a SisterTrope, giving ThoseWackyNazis things like PoweredArmor and [[CoolAirship Cool Airships]], while {{Ghostapo}} could be a "cousin trope", in that it's a more mystical version of StupidJetpackHitler. Oddly, there is no separate trope for American Superscience, but it is not all that exaggerated.

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* In the ''{{Necroscope}}'' books the Soviets have an advanced Psychic intelligence service (almost as [[CreatorProvincialism advanced as the UK's one]], the US doesn't get a look in). Their attempt at a StarTrek style ShieldBubble to cover ''[[UpToEleven The Entire USSR]]'' doesn't go well and in fact [[EpicFail accidentally blows a hole in the fabric of Space-Time creating a gateway to a vampire ridden hellhole]].

*** Another episode had the Kremlin domes doubling as ''missiles''.

It is worth noting that historically the most recognizable disciplines of any super science, - genetics and cybernetics, - received a poor start in the USSR as the Party proclaimed those "false sciences" for being "bourgeois" (yes, this makes about as much sense as ThoseWackyNazis dismissing [[AlbertEinstein Einsteinian relativity]] and the modern theory of the atom as "Jewish physics"). This stance was lifted after Khruschev took power, and USSR's first computer was finished in the mid-50s, but it was too late to successfully catch up with the US. The Soviets, however, [[ILoveNuclearPower loved Nuclear Power]], - the world's first nuclear power plant went online in USSR, - so there would still be some roots for the trope to grow from. Of course, the inconsistencies can be [[HandWave handwaved]] by the means of an AlternateUniverse, as [[CommandAndConquer Red Alert]] testifies.

* "[[MST3K I've just learned that the Russians have launched their own comedian into space and he's pulling a four rating.]]"

* There was an Soviet attempt to create [[HalfHumanHybrid man-chimpanzee hybrids]] for use as workers. Didn't work, but explains the weird science aspect they get in fiction.
**It would have been kind of funny if it would have worked out, since chimps are not much stronger than humans pound for pound (10-15%) and are not as strong as fit human males in total (The Bodily Strength of Chimpanzees Glen Finch Journal of Mammalogy, Vol. 24, No. 2 (May, 1943), pp. 224-228).
*** That's completely ridicolous, chimpanzees are about 5 times as strong as the average Human.
****That number is from a 1923 study which was invalidated several times from the 40s to the 60s. The article sited above was the first to do so. [[{{DidNotDoTheResearch}} No,]] [[{{HumanityIsSuperior}} we really are stronger in total]], although not by mass.
**That and, well, I can imagine it would be a little tough to get beyond the "[[{{Squick}} Alright folks, just line up here to reproduce with a chimp]]" phase.
** The precise details of that infamous experiment, which is usually considered (understandably) little more than an UrbanLegend, is that the Soviet scientist who did it worked more or less alone, only got a grant from Stalin due to red tape (and probably would have been shot if Stalin had discovered what he was actually doing), the experiment consisted of trying to use human sperm to artificially inseminate orangutans (because they didn't know about the close genetic relationship between humans and chimps), and his actual goal was to "prove" evolution and use that to stymie the political power of the Russian Orthodox Church, not to make {{Super Soldier}}s.

* The Soviet Union, apart from creating apemen, was actively working, I kid you not, upon [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_tank flying tanks]] and flying submarines.

** Actually, they managed to build one. They are called [[http://englishrussia.com/index.php/2010/03/12/ekranoplan/ ekranoplans]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_effect_vehicle and they are awesome]].
***Technically, they're more like "flying ships" or literal hovercrafts.