What is Russian Sleep Experiment?
The sleep experiments during World War II
In the late 1940s, Soviet researchers have created a stimulant that they believed can keep a person awake for a long time, which is very useful when you’re fighting a war!
Like in the movies which we see about war today, there were a lot of research going on, specially in terms of stimulating the efficiency of the war comrades.
In the second world war specifically, the Germans had their version of such a stimulant, which was a formidable methamphetamine called the ‘Pervitin’. This was used by the Nazi Military to increasing the time a soldier was up and running (reducing sleep). This drug also increased energy & reduced hunger, making the perfect soldiers in battle.
While the Germans were at it, the Americans and the British were dosi...