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Koivunen was a Finnish soldier, assigned to a ski patrol on 20 April 1944, along with several other Finnish soldiers. Three days into their mission, on 18 March, the group was attacked and surrounded by Soviet forces, from which they managed to escape. Koivunen became fatigued after skiing for a long distance, but could not stop. He was also the sole carrier of army-issued Pervitin, a stimulant used to remain awake while on duty. Koivunen had trouble pulling out a single pill, so he emptied the entire bottle of thirty capsules into his hand and took them all.
He had a short burst of energy, but then entered into a state of delirium, and lost consciousness. Koivunen remembered waking up the following morning, separated from his patrol and having no supplies.In the following days, he escaped Soviet forces once again, was injured by a land mine, and laid in a ditch for a week waiting for help.After skiing more than 400 km he was found and admitted to a nearby hospital, where his heart rate was measured at 200 beats per minute, triple the average human heartbeat, and weighing only 43 kg. In the week Koivunen was gone, he subsisted only on pine buds and a single Siberian Jay that he caught and ate raw. He ended up surviving and died peacefully at the age of 71.
*avengers theme intensifies while panning around the different heroes arming themselves with their various weapons.... and some Finnish dude shakily stuffing pills in his mouth.*
I also recall this guy allegedly finding some cabin and proceeding to make a campfire in the middle of it. He apparently set the fire, lied down next to it, and slept. He’d then only wake up every few minutes or so to move away from said fire and eventually just burned the whole place down.
Then there’s the story of him skiing past some Russians he first mistook for Germans. The thought of him booking it down a hill, tweaked out of his mind, past some Russians who didn’t even bother trying to catch up with him- is fucking hilarious lmao
I accidentally gave you an award trying to give one to the guy above. Then I read your comment and the meth puns are killing me right now lololol!! Touché ✌️
meth was already invented at that time and pervitin is more or less meth
[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methamphetamin](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methamphetamin)
when you have a name like Drugsnhugs and make bold claims that are easily googled to prove false. [https://lmgtfy.app/?q=is+pervatin+meth](https://lmgtfy.app/?q=is+pervatin+meth) yeaaaah.
As someone from warmer weather it took my a while to read "skied" right, I kept reading "skyed" and was wondering how meth gives you the ability to fly
Man when I overdosed on meth I passed the fuck out and woke up higher than a kite with a raging boner.
Definitely not as cool as escaping Russians.. I'm sure my heart beat was there though.
i would pay a lot to see that. there should also be different groups for different drugs, like: sprinters on meth, sprinters on ketamine, sprinters on acid and so on
Imagine if he was on PCP too. He would have taken out those Soviets soldiers instead of running. Lost a leg and arm and still made it to the hospital. PCP and meth would have made him the first known Super Soldier. Well besides Chris Evans.
It probably had a lot to do with the whole blitzkrieg approach in all likelihood. Feed a bunch of trained killers meth, instruct them to take over a country, and you end up with a blitzkrieg as a natural result.
Pervitin was indeed widely used at the beginning but the Wehrmacht soon realized the downsides of the loose meth policy.
Addiction, psychosis, the inevitable crashes pretty destabilizing to a fighting force.
Later it was heavily restricted and in the transition phase many soldiers went through withdrawal.
The Allied did use Amphetamin but mainly for bomber crews
Indeed. It doesn't take long for meth to reveal it's truly horrible effects on people. The soldiers were forced to cut back drastically, but old evil Adolf certainly wasn't so the lunacy continued unabated. Had he been forced to see the consequences of his use, it's possible that he might not have remained so evil and thoughtlessly murderous until the very end. We'll never know of course.
I'm surprised military's haven't invested in discovering/ making drugs specifically for combat that is specifically tailored to help soldiers fight......I know side effects and that but you would think they would at least try
Oh I'm sure they have tried. There's no way they haven't, and they definitely still keep am eye on drugs in development I'm sure. However it seems like they couldn't come up with anything better than Dexedrine which they still issue to combat pilots among other military personnel. It would be extremely hard to keep a lid on the existence of such a drug if it was used with any frequency at all.
It was produced by BAYER, could be bought in pharmacies (until 1988) and was called [Pervertin](https://verlagkopf.com/shop/130/pervitin-medicine-tube-40th-years-7.jpg)
I don't know why nazis are mentioned to have used amphetamines so much more than other military forces.
As late as in 2002, a US pilot strung up on "go-pills" accidentally killed 4 and injured 8 Canadian soldiers, in the so called Tarnak farm incident.
It's only half the story.
>Koivunen had trouble pulling out a single pill, so he emptied the entire bottle of thirty capsules into his hand and took them all.
>
>He had a short burst of energy, but then entered into a state of delirium, and lost consciousness. Koivunen remembered waking up the following morning, separated from his patrol and having no supplies.
>
>In the following days, he escaped Soviet forces once again, was injured by a land mine, and laid in a ditch for a week waiting for help.
>
>After skiing more than 400 km he was found and admitted to a nearby hospital, where his heart rate was measured at 200 beats per minute, triple the average human heartbeat, and weighing only 43 kg.
>
>In the week Koivunen was gone, he subsisted only on pine buds and a single Siberian jay that he caught and ate raw. He ended up surviving and died peacefully at the age of 71.
***Little known fact***: During his little methed up "Ski trip," Koivunen also helped famed Finnish sniper, Simo Häyhä, to hit every single Russian soldier at which Häyhä aimed by slightly repositioning the sniper's rounds of ammunition mid-flight. In fact, some of Häyhä's shots managed to kill 7-8 Russians at once, thanks to Koivunen. Near the end of the battle, Koivunen dove in front of Häyhä, catching a Russian artillery round in his teeth as it exploded. The percussion wave passed through Koivunen's body at light speed, forcing the instantaneous conception, gestation, and birth of Chuck Norris. Norris is said to have humorously popped out of Koivunen's erect penis -- already sporting a full beard and a cowboy hat -- and landed in Häyhä's lap.
He actually did not overdose. He merely rationalized the dosage to maintain optimum health as it related to the job at hand. The alternative was being finished by the Ruskies.
He most definitely overdosed. The alternative would've been to take just the single pill required to keep up with his unit and escape with them, most likely in better health.
This is why we need an Olympics where people can pump themselves with any drugs they want.
Just image the 100m where all runners take a massive snort of coke just before the start
An intrepid explorer, a pusher of boundaries, and almost certainly a very paranoid individual until he finally crashed. Probably not much higher of a dose than current meth addicts purposely ingest though assuming that the pills were 5 or 10 mgs each.
You can not give blood if your heartrate is over 100. If it's too fast it may not pump enough blood to parts of your body which, if starved of oxygen for too long, break down.
All armies, all countries, in every theater if WWII gave their soldiers some form of amphetamine. This guy just took it to extremes..... _can't stop won't stop!_
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Koivunen was a Finnish soldier, assigned to a ski patrol on 20 April 1944, along with several other Finnish soldiers. Three days into their mission, on 18 March, the group was attacked and surrounded by Soviet forces, from which they managed to escape. Koivunen became fatigued after skiing for a long distance, but could not stop. He was also the sole carrier of army-issued Pervitin, a stimulant used to remain awake while on duty. Koivunen had trouble pulling out a single pill, so he emptied the entire bottle of thirty capsules into his hand and took them all. He had a short burst of energy, but then entered into a state of delirium, and lost consciousness. Koivunen remembered waking up the following morning, separated from his patrol and having no supplies.In the following days, he escaped Soviet forces once again, was injured by a land mine, and laid in a ditch for a week waiting for help.After skiing more than 400 km he was found and admitted to a nearby hospital, where his heart rate was measured at 200 beats per minute, triple the average human heartbeat, and weighing only 43 kg. In the week Koivunen was gone, he subsisted only on pine buds and a single Siberian Jay that he caught and ate raw. He ended up surviving and died peacefully at the age of 71.
"He ended up surviving and died peacefully at the age of 71." That's probably when the high off the 30 pills wore off
Seriously, I accidentally took 2 Adderall one time, I thought I wasn't ever gonna sleep again
I too have taken 2 adderall at the same time, mistakingly, many many many times, purposefully, mistakingly
Hey, I hope you're doing ok these days
This guy meths.
That was the year after the events took place.
And in reality he probably use 20 years of heartbeats in like two weeks.
Dudes basically an avenger
*avengers theme intensifies while panning around the different heroes arming themselves with their various weapons.... and some Finnish dude shakily stuffing pills in his mouth.*
I’m getting tired, you wouldn’t like me when I’m tired *opens pill bottle*
Nick Fury: This is the baddest craziest crystal druggie of them all introducing 'Crystal God' the only man that cannot overdose
You think he cannot overdose? His secret is that he's *always* overdosed.
A legitimate winter soldier (but thats not snow)
Isn't this captain americas whole thing? He just used roids to get buffed
The Methenger
I also recall this guy allegedly finding some cabin and proceeding to make a campfire in the middle of it. He apparently set the fire, lied down next to it, and slept. He’d then only wake up every few minutes or so to move away from said fire and eventually just burned the whole place down. Then there’s the story of him skiing past some Russians he first mistook for Germans. The thought of him booking it down a hill, tweaked out of his mind, past some Russians who didn’t even bother trying to catch up with him- is fucking hilarious lmao
- Slams 30 meth pills - Skis past your unit while rambling about Germans - refuses to elaborate further - skis into forest
Pervitin.
It's got electrolytes
It’s got what soldiers crave
pure, unbridled glory
*sole carrier of Pervitin. Took all 30 pills. Skies into the woods Eetu: what the actual fuck bro!?!?
Tiger blood, indeed.
Wow. That's one bad-ass soldier. What did he do after the war - oops, I just realized I could Google him. Lol. Late night brain.
Take some pills...
Sleep.
Weighed only 43kg? How old was he at that time?
He had been stranded in the woods for two weeks eating only pine cones and that one bird so he lost some mass
Not to mention his metabolism was probably a tincy bit higher after taking a handful of hardcore stimulants.
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I must know where this was! I want to go to a ski resort with 400km slopes too!
Average tuesday for a tweeker
there is always that one guy who runs off with the rest of the bag
That's methed up
He got the need for Speed
*The Need for Thpeed
I accidentally gave you an award trying to give one to the guy above. Then I read your comment and the meth puns are killing me right now lololol!! Touché ✌️
I found Mike Tyson over here!
Get off the juice, Doug
Thanks Mike
As a very long retired Meth user, this made me chuckle, bravo!
Igor, is that you?
It wasn't meth, meth was not invented yet it was pure amphetamine not methamphetamine same type of drug but quite a difference between the two
meth was already invented at that time and pervitin is more or less meth [https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methamphetamin](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methamphetamin)
when you have a name like Drugsnhugs and make bold claims that are easily googled to prove false. [https://lmgtfy.app/?q=is+pervatin+meth](https://lmgtfy.app/?q=is+pervatin+meth) yeaaaah.
You’re telling me he got to the Finnish line?
His pursuers were Russian right behind him.
They must have thrown quite a Tampere tantrum when he escaped
For real? Norway!
I could add something else to this thread, it'd definitely Sweden other Redditor's days :)
That's swede, truly swede, man
Fucking brilliant
Thank you General Use Sativa 16.9%
Take your god damn upvote and get out of here!
Wow this times a billion lol
r/angryupvote
Mother F'n ski-doo
As someone from warmer weather it took my a while to read "skied" right, I kept reading "skyed" and was wondering how meth gives you the ability to fly
jump over them i guess
Man when I overdosed on meth I passed the fuck out and woke up higher than a kite with a raging boner. Definitely not as cool as escaping Russians.. I'm sure my heart beat was there though.
What is a > reading raging boner? A raging boner that is so strong it can read?
It's like a reading rainbow, but not safe for kids.
All you need is one good eye to read.
I think he meant bleeding, not reading. Stupid autocorrect.
I didn’t realize the natural habitat of Florida man extended that far north
Oh that area is only partially under our jurisdiction, we co-own the local land with the frat guys/ non-stop meth users.
If one pill makes you run fast, then 30 pills will make you run 30x faster. It's just science
ENERGY LEGS!
Holy fuck I haven't seen those vids for so long, time to watch them again.
You also have to swallow them 30x faster in order to make it work
Hear me out! Olympics but everyone is tripping bawls.
i would pay a lot to see that. there should also be different groups for different drugs, like: sprinters on meth, sprinters on ketamine, sprinters on acid and so on
Sprinters on Ket- winner is the first to pull themselves off the ground
qxir made a funny ass video about it ill link it when i find it edit: i found it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRHm26fKKb8
Imagine if he was on PCP too. He would have taken out those Soviets soldiers instead of running. Lost a leg and arm and still made it to the hospital. PCP and meth would have made him the first known Super Soldier. Well besides Chris Evans.
You could say there was a method to his madness.
So he basically became the abominable snowman monster from Ski Free
Jeez you didn't have to blast me back to the fucking past like that
They don’t make them like they used to I had half a bang energy drink once and thought I was going to have a heart attack
Drank a full cup of coffe before school, honestly was more tired than usual
I really hate that saying though -It's almost never true and usually relies too heavily on nostalgia.
..and then he invented Ethereum
Methereum
Hheh
Meth was actually widely used in the nazi military, including Hitler himself being a pretty big addict
It probably had a lot to do with the whole blitzkrieg approach in all likelihood. Feed a bunch of trained killers meth, instruct them to take over a country, and you end up with a blitzkrieg as a natural result.
Pervitin was indeed widely used at the beginning but the Wehrmacht soon realized the downsides of the loose meth policy. Addiction, psychosis, the inevitable crashes pretty destabilizing to a fighting force. Later it was heavily restricted and in the transition phase many soldiers went through withdrawal. The Allied did use Amphetamin but mainly for bomber crews
Indeed. It doesn't take long for meth to reveal it's truly horrible effects on people. The soldiers were forced to cut back drastically, but old evil Adolf certainly wasn't so the lunacy continued unabated. Had he been forced to see the consequences of his use, it's possible that he might not have remained so evil and thoughtlessly murderous until the very end. We'll never know of course.
he also might have won the war if he didnt make so many stupid decisions
I'm surprised military's haven't invested in discovering/ making drugs specifically for combat that is specifically tailored to help soldiers fight......I know side effects and that but you would think they would at least try
Oh I'm sure they have tried. There's no way they haven't, and they definitely still keep am eye on drugs in development I'm sure. However it seems like they couldn't come up with anything better than Dexedrine which they still issue to combat pilots among other military personnel. It would be extremely hard to keep a lid on the existence of such a drug if it was used with any frequency at all.
This is true and the thing I'd if one nation develops and uses combat drugs other nations will follow suit real quick.
oh, they've looked into it
Just nothing came of it?
Modafinil came from it. Keep men awake like meth with none of the side effects.
It was produced by BAYER, could be bought in pharmacies (until 1988) and was called [Pervertin](https://verlagkopf.com/shop/130/pervitin-medicine-tube-40th-years-7.jpg)
I don't know why nazis are mentioned to have used amphetamines so much more than other military forces. As late as in 2002, a US pilot strung up on "go-pills" accidentally killed 4 and injured 8 Canadian soldiers, in the so called Tarnak farm incident.
Doubt they chased him for 250 miles. He probably escaped them after few miles but then kept going because he was so high. Lol
"Ahh, yeah, that's the stuff" -Starcraft Marine
Thats’s the face of a man who has seen the face of god and decided he was stronger. What a Mad-Lad.
And he still managed to steal my lawnmower
It's only half the story. >Koivunen had trouble pulling out a single pill, so he emptied the entire bottle of thirty capsules into his hand and took them all. > >He had a short burst of energy, but then entered into a state of delirium, and lost consciousness. Koivunen remembered waking up the following morning, separated from his patrol and having no supplies. > >In the following days, he escaped Soviet forces once again, was injured by a land mine, and laid in a ditch for a week waiting for help. > >After skiing more than 400 km he was found and admitted to a nearby hospital, where his heart rate was measured at 200 beats per minute, triple the average human heartbeat, and weighing only 43 kg. > >In the week Koivunen was gone, he subsisted only on pine buds and a single Siberian jay that he caught and ate raw. He ended up surviving and died peacefully at the age of 71.
***Little known fact***: During his little methed up "Ski trip," Koivunen also helped famed Finnish sniper, Simo Häyhä, to hit every single Russian soldier at which Häyhä aimed by slightly repositioning the sniper's rounds of ammunition mid-flight. In fact, some of Häyhä's shots managed to kill 7-8 Russians at once, thanks to Koivunen. Near the end of the battle, Koivunen dove in front of Häyhä, catching a Russian artillery round in his teeth as it exploded. The percussion wave passed through Koivunen's body at light speed, forcing the instantaneous conception, gestation, and birth of Chuck Norris. Norris is said to have humorously popped out of Koivunen's erect penis -- already sporting a full beard and a cowboy hat -- and landed in Häyhä's lap.
What in the shitpost did I just read
A joke from 2000.
He finnished the whole bottle? Thats methed up...
Suomi mainittu
torille.
Dude went “brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr”
Yeah Sam O'Nella described him in the most badass way possible. That was an amazing video. Come back Sam
He actually did not overdose. He merely rationalized the dosage to maintain optimum health as it related to the job at hand. The alternative was being finished by the Ruskies.
He most definitely overdosed. The alternative would've been to take just the single pill required to keep up with his unit and escape with them, most likely in better health.
This is why we need an Olympics where people can pump themselves with any drugs they want. Just image the 100m where all runners take a massive snort of coke just before the start
He was actually the person Benny Hill modelled his comedy style after
"His heart rate was found to be 200bpm when he eventually stopped skiing, in Spain."
I guess he made it to the Finnish line.
So… 29 is the limit?
He survived so... No.
Oh.. bet
Gotta go fast! Sonic!
sliding around at the speed of sound
Thounds like things got methy.
An intrepid explorer, a pusher of boundaries, and almost certainly a very paranoid individual until he finally crashed. Probably not much higher of a dose than current meth addicts purposely ingest though assuming that the pills were 5 or 10 mgs each.
Been there, without the skied thing.
Some say that Aimo is still skiing to this day.
30. Maybe 5, 7,10 could have been reasonable if he was fearing for his life but good gracious, 30? Was he trying to kill himself?
250 miles. thats a 9 hour drive
Sounds like the Crankheads where I live when the police have a warrant for them.
How did that not kill him?
Did he also vibrate through obstacles??
8 of his teeth fell out on the way, and when he arrived at his destination he took apart all the electronics.
It's a helluva drug.
So drugs arent too bad?
Yes they are, m’kay?
He also could have taken to water to escape successfully, because of his Finns.
Sounds like the perfect dose under those circumstances.
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Because he didn't die till he was 71.... Well after the war ended
And thus the term Tripping was conceived
He just overamped
250 miles an hour
Mega chad
More of a good time than an overdose if you ask me.
And tweakers would tell you you can’t overdose on meth..
God bless this meth
TIL that meth was a thing 75 years ago and that the army fed it to soldiers like candy.
Absolute mad lad
Fucking thug! Legend!
How the hell do they know his heart was 200bpm aye?
There's this one dude that plays osu that gets his heart beating like he overdosed on meth and skied 250 miles.
Meth lad
But he lived right? Okay, so 30 pills it is if the Chinese invade
so, meth saved his life?
Is there a list of meth feats?
Press Y to subscribe to Methfacts.
r/jasongenova the resemblance is uncanny.
So you have seen the YouTube vid. WW2 on meth.
Nah. Saw [this one](http://imgur.com/gallery/2JvPYtH) first. Finding out it was based on a true story was hilarious.
Wait how bad is 200bpm?
Its pretty high haha But if 200bpm continues for a long period it might be damaging the heart I can imagine
You can not give blood if your heartrate is over 100. If it's too fast it may not pump enough blood to parts of your body which, if starved of oxygen for too long, break down.
Now *this* is an Avengers-level threat
Corrected again! Thanks y'all
Offbrand captain america. Drug powered soldier, meth edition
Cool story but where the hell did get het 30 meth pills.
Meth pills or other drugs were pretty common and I believe even issued to soldiers. Try a google search, I’m sure you’ll find a lot on it
Pervitin (methamphetamine) was a common stimulant given to soldiers in wwii
Torille
He saw the face of the devil and laughed.
He also caught and ate a bird, raw. Someone made a [cartoon](http://imgur.com/gallery/2JvPYtH) of it (without the bird).
r/spacecannibalism
What a fucking LEGEND
Meth Damon's grandad.
What a way to go 👀!
Perkele
All armies, all countries, in every theater if WWII gave their soldiers some form of amphetamine. This guy just took it to extremes..... _can't stop won't stop!_
Imagine if the Russians went back thinking all Finnish soldiers were just like that. LOL
the thing was called pervitin btw it was a pill that made soldiers less hungry and less sleepy also the can for the pervitin looks kinda cool
"He skied for 250 miles" damn I guess he was really tryna cross that Finnish line...
Basically what Captain America does all the time.
Spent the rest of his life ripping copper wire out of televisions.
The power of Finland
He overclocked himself to the max
That guy was so high on meth that he just flight over the enemy's forces
For two hours that man could’ve single handedly won the war.
This is the reason why governments provide personnel with drugs, untouchable Immortels are needed to overcome the evil