The story of a soldier who survived the war with a drug overdose.

In 1944 Finnish soldier Imo Koivonen detached from his unit and survived for weeks inside the Arctic Circle without food or shelter, on a dose of methamphetamine large enough for 30 men. Over the course of World War II, Finland repelled the Soviet invasion, allied itself with Germany against the Soviet Union and then fought with the Allies against Germany, the methamphetamine-fueled survival story of Private Imo Koivonen astonishingly embodies the chaos of World War II. During that war, the Finnish soldiers were fighting for four years, and during the war, a Finnish patrol found itself behind the enemy lines and surrounded by Soviet soldiers inside the Lapland region in northern Finland, which was covered with snow during that period of March 1944 AD, and when the shooting began on them, the soldiers began rushing from In order to get out of the line of fire, most of the soldiers fled on skis.

The officer Imo was leading the skiers through the deep snow, and the soldiers were obscuring the movement of Imo who was their leader so he walked in front to clear their way through the thick snow, but he soon felt very tired and then remembered the packet of cereal in his pocket. Back in Finland, the soldiers were receiving rations of a stimulant drug called Pervitin, and the commanders promised the soldiers that this drug would give them high doses of energy to withstand the harsh conditions of war, and the officer Imo initially resisted his desire to take the stimulant, but he and the rest of the soldiers were in conditions Too miserable.

So Imo decided to put his hand in his pocket and pulled out a packet of stimulants, carrying a stash of medication for his entire squad. Skating at speed to escape the Soviet, he raised the packet toward his mouth and instead of swallowing one pill he swallowed 30 pills of pure methamphetamine. Immediately Imo began to skate faster, and because the team was following him, they all accelerated, and the Soviets were unable to catch up. But with the passage of time, the vision began to appear blurry in front of Emu and he became unable to distinguish the road in front of him, yet he did not stop skiing, but the next day, when Emu began to regain consciousness, he discovered that he had covered a distance of 100 km through the snow, and also discovered that he was completely alone and that His band is not with him.

Although he survived the Soviets, the situation did not bode well for him either. He is now alone in the snow with no food or ammunition, and all he has are two skis and a boost of energy he received after taking methamphetamine, so he continued to ski, and soon also realized that Soviet soldiers were still chasing them Some of them chased after him, and as he claimed, a landmine exploded while he was skiing, causing a fire. Imo survived the explosion and fire but made him shake, he lay on the ground, started rolling left and right, unable to control himself. But when he felt too cold, he got back on the sled and continued his journey, but as the days passed and the effect of methamphetamine began to wear off, his appetite slowly returned, while the huge doses of the stimulant suppressed his desire to eat, but the hunger pangs eventually led to his death. make his situation awkward.

Especially that the winter of Lapland did not leave him much, so he had no choice but to bite off the pine buds to relieve hunger, and in the end Imo found himself in Finnish lands, and the citizens rushed to him, and they carried him and took him to the hospital, and he later discovered that he had traveled a distance of about 400 km or more. 500 miles, he dropped to 94 pounds, but his heart rate remained critically high, at 200 beats per minute until he was treated. Thanks to the stimulant he took, he actually got him so far, and in fact, imo quivonene wasn't the only WWII soldier fueled by performance-enhancing drugs. The Nazi regime also relied on drugs such as methamphetamine to give its soldiers an advantage over enemies.

In the days leading up to the Nazi invasion of France, leaders distributed the drug Pervitin to millions of soldiers. The German pharmaceutical company, Timler Berlin, developed Perfetin in 1938. The pharmaceutical company claimed that Perfetin pills were an ingestible form of crystal methamphetamine, treating depression. For a short time, Germans were allowed to buy Energy pills without a prescription. Then the German physician Otto Ranke began testing Pervitin on university students, and as the war approached, Ranke suggested giving Pervitin to the soldiers. Indeed, Pervitin, made from methamphetamine, began to be distributed to soldiers in World War II, and this drug helped German soldiers stay awake for long periods without sleep, and about 35 doses of the drug were distributed to soldiers during the war. But despite the millions of doses of methamphetamine distributed during the war, Imo Koivunen was the only soldier known to have survived a methamphetamine overdose behind enemy lines. Not only that, Koivonen survived the war and lived into his 70s.