Bodybuilding was born in the USSR

Look at these bodies! Can a usual man/woman looks like this without physical exercises? The answer is NO!
Now u may try to make a searching all over the world and u won't find such posters with so strong people! These posters started from 1930-s years.

It was born in England at the turn of the century and invented by a German( Prussian) born bodybuilder Eugen Sandow. His mother was Russian .

Maybe Performance Enhancing Drug taking by athletes was born there.

Actually no the Ancient Greeks were the first to use artificial performance enhancement drugs in antiquity.

"The ancient Olympic champions were professionals who competed for huge cash prizes as well as olive wreaths... Most forms of what we would call cheating were perfectly acceptable to them, save for game-fixing. There is evidence that they gorged themselves on meat -- not a normal dietary staple of the Greeks -- and experimented with herbal medications in an effort to enhance their performances...The ancient Greek athletes also drank wine potions, used hallucinogens and ate animal hearts or testicles in search of potency."


They used strychnine - which can be a deadly poison - in small doses to stave off fatigue and an opium laced syrup which suppressed pain and allowed you to compete despite injuries .... Apparently cheating was acceptable to ancient Greek athletes except game fixing which was entirely prohibited.

No drugs, only pure synthetic cure!