01/28/2022
Aimo Koivunen Takes More Drugs Than A 1980s Rock Star...
When you think about your personal accomplishments, doing copious amounts of drugs probably wasn’t som**hing you considered as “getting things done.”
However, during World War II, doing m**h was considered a viable tactic to get things done—and nobody did more m**h than Finnish soldier Aimo Koivunen.
But he didn’t exactly do it all on purpose.
While on a days-long ski patrol south of Murmansk in 1944, his group was attacked by Soviet soldiers.
Tired and needing a quick boost of energy to escape, Aimo tried to take a capsule of Pervitin (m**hamphetamine).
But he was having trouble getting a dose out of the bottle.
In an act of desperation, Aimo dumped the contents of the entire bottle into his mouth—30 pills in all—a supply that was supposed to go to his entire patrol group.
When he was finally found weeks later, his heart rate was at least double that of an average human, he weighed 42.6 kilograms (94 lb), and he was more than 400 kilometers (250 mi) away from his ski group.
