Random Facts About Conjoined Twins Who Trapped In Same Body (11 items)

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  (#9) As Adults, The Twins Reconnected With Their Birth Mother

  After the girls were born in January of 1950, their mother - Yekaterina Krivoshlyapova - was told her daughters would require extensive state-sponsored care to live. Yekaterina agreed, but asked for permission to still visit her daughters from time to time. But in order to avoid her objecting to the experiments scientists planned to perform, she was promptly told the girls had died.

  Years later, Yekaterina managed to reconnect with Masha and Dasha and attempted to form a relationship with them. Unfortunately, Masha ran their mother off after only four years of reconciliation, returning the girls to a life of isolation.
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  (#4) Masha Displayed Many Personality Traits Consistent With Psychopathy

  Masha became noticeably disobedient as soon as Soviet scientists began trying to measure the motor skills of the twins as toddlers. While Dasha would lift the leg she controlled in response to a nurse's request to put socks on her, Masha would ignore the caregiver and even throw the sock away aggressively. As a result, Dasha quickly learned how to put socks on herself while Masha was unable - or unwilling - to concentrate on the task long enough to get it done.

  As the sisters grew older, they became friends with a woman named Juliet Butler, who claims Masha would scream threats at Dasha while physically attacking her. Butler also noted that Masha often refused to let Dasha speak for herself in many of the trio's conversations, and alleged that Masha compulsively lied and showed narcissistic tendencies.
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  (#2) Scientists Effectively Tortured The Girls Under The Guise Of Experimentation

  Since Masha and Dasha shared the same circulatory system but had separate nervous systems, scientists were particularly interested in testing each twin's reaction (or lack thereof) to the other twin's physical distress. The experiments they conducted involved tactics like covering one twin in ice while the other twin would be carefully observed for a reaction. Similar experiments were also conducted with extreme heat, painful stimuli, and even the injection of radioactive iodine.

  The girls are also believed to have been electrocuted, had tubes inserted into their stomachs to measure gastric juices, and to have been deprived of sleep, particularly during their formative years, from birth to around age 12.
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  (#3) Video Documentation Of The Experiments The Girls Were Subjected To Exists

  While the girls were living at the medical institute, the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences filmed many of their interactions with Masha and Dasha, from their infancy well into their early childhood years. The resulting film documents each of the twins being probed with various stimulus tools to measure the reaction of the 'unharmed' sister. The footage also shows them learning how to put on socks and use crutches for walking.

  They were also reportedly injected with radioactive iodine to see if the substance would make its way from one sister's bloodstream into the other's. In another experiment, one twin was fed while the other starved, in an attempt to measure the gastric juices of both using tubes inserted into their stomachs.
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  (#1) The Twins Shared A Circulatory System, But Not A Nervous System

  A Soviet physiologist named Pyotr Anokhin dedicated his career to conducting experiments that sought to pinpoint the different functions of the human circulatory and central nervous systems, specifically when a person was sleep-deprived, subjected to extreme temperature changes, or denied sustenance. So, when conjoined twins Masha and Dasha were born in Moscow in 1950 possessing one body that contained a joint circulatory system and two separate nervous systems, Anokhin saw them as the perfect subjects for his future experimentation. 

  Shortly after they were born, the twins were taken from their mother, who was told they had died of pneumonia just after birth. In reality, the sisters were transported to a nearby medical institute in Moscow where they became the subjects of extensive, life-altering experiments.
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  (#7) Dasha Attempted Suicide When The Girls Were 18

  When Dasha fell in love with a fellow student named Slava while attending the School for Invalids, Masha became enraged. As she grew older, Masha had become very controlling and manipulative, pushing people away, lying, and exhibiting other troubling signs of psychopathy.

  Masha disapproved of Dasha's relationship with Slava, and would even physically attack him at times. Distressed by her inability to pursue love interests and the violently controlling nature of her sister, Dasha attempted to hang herself at the age of 18.

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