Finnish Soldier Takes Enough Meth For 30 Men, Skies 62 Miles Overnight, Survives In A Cabin That Was On Fire, Loses A Foot To a Land Mind, And Eats Raw Birds For Good Measure
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Aimo Koivunen and other Finnish soldiers were assigned to ski patrol on March 18, 1944, a long distance patrol in isolated and harsh environments with an emphasis on survival. Three days into their patrol, they were attacked by the Soviets.
In a desperate attempt to escape with their lives, the Finnish soldiers followed Koivunen through the winter forests. Each of the men in the patrol had different supplies. Aimo Koivunen had the entire patrol’s supply of Pervitin pills (30 pills). As he became tired and the Soviet soldiers kept pursuing them, Koivunen decided to take an energy pill.
He could not stop to open the bottle, and thick mittens prevented him from grabbing a single pill. In a desperate attempt to stay alive, he emptied the entire bottle of methamphetamine into his mouth. And things started to get weird.
He woke up the next morning to find himself 62 miles (100km) away from where he started.
All of his supplies and men were missing as well. Aimo Koivunen was still high on meth and saw a camp he assumed were Finnish soldiers and went over to the men. He then discovered a small wooden cabin in the woods and went inside, lit a fire, and went to sleep, only to wake up to a massive fire: he had inadvertently set fire to his shelter. Instead of leaving the burning cabin, he scooched back a little bit and went back to sleep until the cabin collapsed.
Before we get goin here, I need to make an obvious statement. Aimo is military actions are all bad. This guy was a Finnish soldier at the time when they were supporting/ acting with the Nazis. Bad. We disavow that because we aren't Kanye. Kanye probably fucking loves Aimo. I bet he's trying to get a tattoo of Aimo right now. Sick bitch. Anyway, Aimo is bad, fought for the wrong side, and we disavow. Just wanna make that clear.
That being said, what an insane story. I know just those few paragraphs seem like the ending of the story but it's not. There are more tales from his few days, methed out, laying there in a ditch, only to get up and start stabbing a tree for what he said might have been 12 hours.
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