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* [[Oleg Divov]]'s ''Zombie Trail'' trilogy is all about Soviet "psychotronic" weapons and their [[Gone Horribly Wrong]] side effects. The original Project came to be after an American misinformation campagin led the Soviet leadership to believe that the US was experimenting with [[Psychic Powers]]. Unintentionally, the resulting Soviet psychic program bore fruit. A "psychotronic cannon" was built that could be used to [[Mind Control]] people on a massive scale. However, it had to be operated by an extremely powerful psychic. In order to create one (or more), the Children's Program was set up that involved subjecting 1000 children to radiation, hoping the resulting mutation would be psychic in nature. It was a near-complete disaster, as all but 5 children died. Some of the survivors, though, did become the coveted super-psychics, although they refused to fire the cannon. Additional experiments were conducted on metropolitan scale by building powerful mind-control generators in major Soviet cities that would eliminate all dissent. They worked for a while, until interdimensional holes started opening, letting in [[Energy Beings]] that took over humans and became so-called "zombies" (of the fast variety). You'd think the experiments would stop in a [[What Have I Done]] fashion. No such luck. The third novel reveals that the modern-day Russian version of the Project succeeded in subliminaly influencing the world population into thinking that everything Russian is cool.
* ''Red Plenty'' by Francis Spufford is an [[Alternate History]] novel in which the Soviet Union decides to outdo capitalism by creating a proper planned economy with the help of computers and cybernetics. The novel is based on actual work being done at the time behind the Iron Curtain but, as in real life, cynical realism triumphs over communist idealism and only token reforms are made.
* The Russian multi-writer series called ''Death Zone'' is about the aftermath of a strange event involving a [[Negative Space Wedgie]] that wipes out several major Russian cities and creates five anomalous areas roughtly 50 kilometers in diameter separated from the rest of the world by gravity bubbles. One of the novels eventually reveals that the so-called Catastrophe was, in fact, caused by the second activation of a device that was originally developed by a Soviet scientist to allow instantaneous hyperdimentional transportation. The first activation of the device on April 26, 1986, caused the 4th reactor of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power
* In ''How to Build a Flying Saucer", T. B. Pawlicki asserted that the Soviets were making good progress with wireless electricity distribution, and that the West only insisted on sticking with cables because wireless transmission couldn't be effectively metered - and a capitalist society needs to know where to send the bill.
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