The drug-fuelled misadventures of a Finnish WW2 soldier | QI - BBC
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- The unbelievable tale of a Finnish soldier who skied through enemy camps and fought imaginary wolverines #QI #iPlayer
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Some of the details of the story differed from what I read, but I think the highlight of the story comes from after the war. Aimo saw a competition in a newspaper, where people were asked to submit their most unbelievable stories from the war. Aimo wrote and submitted his story for the competition. He came in second.
I can’t imagine what kind of story the winner must have told!
@@hks2377"you see, I was hiding in Hitler's couch during WW2..."
I think the fct that it came second is a hilarious detail.
@@asheep7797They were not enemies so I don't think that's it😊
@SvensktTroll they were though. Lapland war, Finland vs. Germany.
Aimoannos
Hei! Siitäkö se termi tulee? :D
@@SK-nw4ig Valitettavasti ei. "Aimo" on ollut mainiota, runsasta jne. tarkoittava termi monta vuosikymmentä, mahdollisesti ollut käytössä jo ennen kuin siitä tuli miehen nimi.
Mutta jos ulkomaalainen kysyy niin kyllä se tulee ;D
@@Taisto-Perkele dang. Ois ollut hyvä.
@@SK-nw4igMieti nyt vähän... Harvoin asia tulee nimestä, eikä toisinpäin. Yks poikkeus on se että mielivaltaisuus oikeudessa tulee siitä, kun Mielivalta niminen hämäläinen tuomari käytti valtaansa väärin Leväjärven käräjillä :DDD
@@SairanBurghausen tokihan on paljonkin termejä, jotka tulevat nimistä. Röntgen, huligaani, giljotiini, allit... :D
They did not tell even half of that whole story. Whole story is even better.
Because it’s a panel show, not history channel.
I dont know where they pulled this story, might be true, but Im a Finn I was told he was a member of a ranger squad that did querilla work deep inside Soviet terrority. He lost his whole team, chucked pills and skiid 400km home without rest.
Yes, he was a recon squad member. He was patrolling in Salla area, where landmarks are only trees, trees and more trees. They became a target and had to flee, and he took the pills by accident. Pills were very small and they were all stuck together.
His fellow troops took away his ammo, because he was tripping so hard, and one day he was just missing. He once triggered a booby trap and got blasted by a granade. Still skiied, hit a land mine, damaged his leg, was not able to move. He drank only tea made from spruce buds, and only solid food was a jaybird he killed and ate it raw. Two weeks, 400km and finally he was found and delivered to hospital.
The Soviets had the same reaction as when you see that methhead on the night bus
“Don’t make eye contact, keep a hold on your bag”
If Cocaine Bear was a Finnish soldier.
pervitin is hell of a drug
Meth or not, surviving 2 weeks in the freezing wilderness with only the clothes you're wearing and no food or water is incredible.
Well, I mean he ate a whole jay.
Also prolly ate snow to get hydrated
He skied 400k in a WEEK, the second week he spent his days in a pothole after that mine incident in less than -30C degree weather and survived on that one small bird.
This is amazing! How he survived is beyond me but bloody good thing that he was found!
That’s one hell of a bender, especially in the middle of a war. That sounds like a Seth Rogen stoner movie 😂
Nobody would believe that movie....
Most badass soldier whole war history in my opinion.
Man who stared at god and laughed
Ok I'm finnish, how come it has taken over twenty years and a tiny danish lady for me to learn about this?
Qxir has easily one of the best tellings of this story, which this seems to heavily loan from, or they just have common sources.
It's a true story, but has a lot more to it and it gets added to every time.
Ain’t no way. Ootko suomalainen?
@@angryfinn7737eiks toljanteri kertonu?
@@Caldera01haven't heard of that, I'll check it out, thanks!
These guys were tough. I cannot even begin to imagine how to survive those conditions, I'mean the guy skied 400 km's, survived in the winter for days with no food, high af, armed with only a knife.
IDK if he had a knife, I think his mates took his knife together with his ammunition when they saw what condition he is in. I heard he killed the wolverine (actually a log of wood) with his compass which he thought was a knife…
Skiing uphill is perfectly normal.
Ne varmaan aattelee että "skiing" tarkottais pelkkää laskettelua.
@@toveriemppuz1252 Niin tuppaavat tekemään.
Aiheuttaa ainakin Briteissä ihmetystä, kun niille kertoo hiihtäneensä kakarana kouluun.
Taisi olla vain humoristinen korostus että hiihti paremmin/kovempaa kuin koskaan, ja vielä ylämäkeen!
@@jukkajokelainen418 Ei kaikki panelistitkaan näyttänyt miltään hiihtäjiltä ja heitä on paljon nykyään Briteissä. Joten kyllä siellä on ihan oikeastikkin täysin ymmärtämätöntä porukkaa tässä suhteessa nykyään.
And like any Finn, he did not speak a single word during these two weeks.
Well there were no one to talk with. If he'd be talking by himself you could think he was crazy 😂
For anyone interested in the full story, I think The Fat Electrician has the best video on it on youtube.
beat me to it ! was about to say the same thing.
The Fat Electrician is awesome. His retelling of this story is fantastic. This clip left out a lot of the story.
this story is totally different of what i have heard. He was fleeing from soviets with his squad and tried to take pervitin pills but in freezing cold and hurry he accidentally took all of them and when his squad members saw his weird behavior from the pills they took his gun and obviously aimo was much faster when others cus he was in meth so he lost his squad members.
In Finland we have a saying, piri toimii. It means literally that speed works.
Thanks Qxir!
It's no laughing matter in war though. What a survival.
Wow, after hearing the full story unabridged, and then watching this, i've gotta say, these so-called comedians just can't take not being the center of attention can they, interrupting a real moment of sheer comedic insanity every five seconds just so they can hear the sounds of their own voices
This story should be enough to deter people from taking drugs. But, no, it would be cool to be superman for a day
The very first Florida Man in history.
”So anyway, I started blasting”. - the original.
If you can read Finnish, the original story mr. Koivunen wrote back in the 1970s for the Kansa taisteli - miehet kertovat (People fought - Men tell) magazine on his adventures is one of the most hilarious things I've ever read as historian of Finnish 20th century history. It is pure Fear and Loathing in Karelia.
They say drugs are bad, but every now and then you hear a story that makes you think they can't be _that_ bad.
Typical Finnish winter weekend. We do it all the time. Some take their kids with them.
i learned about this guy do too zach hazard :)
American fighter pilots still have that in there position on missions.
I can never understand what is so funny!
Not sure if they got the wrong version fo the story or if they decided to cut out parts of it.
I actually fell over laughing at this 🤣
Nah. The meth is a cover story for the Finnish Sisu.
Nah the real sisu is just a cover for a meth.
Holy Heck 😂
Soviet conscript vs Meth'd Up ski finn 😂
fighting the soviets so funneh XDDD me tea come out me nose
The one and only true father of me and every other Finnish junkie
Least dangerous finnish soldier
The story wasnt very well told here, Qxir has a video where he tells this story a lot better
We've all done that
Yes
My sister used to work in emergency medicine, the number of patients who stepped on landlines and blew up a foot after fighting imaginary wolverines while on a massive meth bender is just insane ....
@@lilymarinovic1644 we've all done that
They. Fought like Ancient heroes.. Finnish resisted until the very end.. USSR win two time but was a very bitter end in two turns.
you'd fight like a bloody spartan too if you were that jacked up on speed
@@stocktonjoansHell, I’d come out of my retirement of being a dedicated, hermit-like, Nana if I dosed up like that. Sod the cats and knitting, let’s gooooo!
USSR did not win. Finland retained its independence and freedom.
But we lost 11% of our land. Like 300k+ people were homeless. We had to pay war reparations. For quite a long time we basically had to be careful what we did and said so it wouldn't anger the USSR. If they said we couldn't do something, we couldn't do it. Or else they would have become angry and very likely done something about it.@@butterflies655
@@stocktonjoans Oh yeah. But they are mocking of People Who was fightinf for their countries. Their People.
skiid on a mine, didnt just sneak some no?
Better than RedBull and it's wings.
That actually is how all Finns look in photographs, wether they're on meth or completely sober. Alcohol however is another issue...
Not quite true.
Yeah i mean you get bored because the winter can be very very long so meth.... i don't approve or enxourage that but i understand it :D
Kumma kun ei ole tullut tietoon että yksi tuon partion sotilaista jäi sotavangigsi, ja pääsi vasta 50-luvuiila pois.
And you are laughing!
You forgot to mention the part when he ate the bird raw.
He survived taking that much?? 😅
Lived till 71 years old.
Extreme cold helped to keep him alive but it's still insane how he survived that dose.
Finnish speed dealers in those days were well known to cut the pills with grain flower left over from baking
@@JP-oe4ry Perhaps, but the military issued Pervitin came from Germany.
Hmmm. It seems like here is some "Lapin lisä", but still great story ;)
Lol lol looooooooooooool loooooooool
Possibly the approach Britain needs to survive the insanity of BREXIT.
I,m not gonna watch the video, all I,m going to say is why do he look like Fade Rowtha from Dune 2?
Se on se sisu
Torille!
Good lord, who is that jacked guy? 😅😍
Just some raver they picked up off of the street. 😂
@@lizzlebizzle5003 i gotta get to those raves then haha my kinda party-goers lol
@@satyasyasatyasya5746 🤣🤣 I hope you find it! 😜
Sandi Toksvig
@@Tao_TologyHa!
This wasn't close to real story
What if his friends switched the "meth pills" in his charge to ordinary sugar tablets as a joke...
It doesn't matter if it's placebo if it works.
uhh. its kinda weird that everyone was laughing still after being told he stepped on a mine and blew his foot off? like..how is that funny anymore? Feels like a really disrespectful way to tell a great national heros story...
but this is completely not the story
No one has actually verified the story. But it's a good story. 😅
Really!
This is a pretty butchered timeline of the events.
Honestly, I have my doubts about 'accidentally swallowed dozens of pills in one go'.
Unless the pills were _very_ small, your throat and your swallow-response simply wouldn't treat "a collection of dry-surfaced objects" as something to go down all at once.
Even if he had some liquid in his mouth first, you still would have to wait for some pills to be swallowed before trying to swallow the rest.
The story i read a few years ago about his incident was quite different to what was presented here:
this is what i read:
The reason he took the pills was because his patrol got ambushed and the rest of his patrol died.
He managed to get to cover, and knew he had to flee somehow. So he opened the pillbottle and tried to get one out (while still under fire).
Problem was: when you take items from the freezing into the warm there's condensation and when you get back into the cold, the condensation freezes.
And so the pills had frozen together and he wasn't able to just get one. But under the stress of getting shot at and the need to be quick, he got the "frozen block" of 30 pills in his mouth and ate/chewed that and fled.
And there was no mention of the encounter of the russians or the setting fire to a room.
Just that he skiied (cros country skiing not alpine skeeing) the 400km and 2 weeks. The mine and the bird were in the story i read too.
And he lived to an old age despite all this.
@@nirfz There are so many versions of this story I'm not sure I believe any of them. I saw one youtube "history" channel claiming he killed hundreds of soviets in the process.
The pills were very small. They were stuck together, and he of course had no idea what the pills were supposed to look like. I was getting dark, they were shot at and followed, so he took that one big lumb and propably chewed it and ate it. The pills must have been in the package for a long time, went through hot periods near campfire and back to freezing cold, back to warm, back to cold. Perhaps the pills had melted a bit along with moisture and in the end was just one bigger chunk. The metal casing is no bigger than a remote control battery and had 30 pills, which were about the size of half a pea.
Seems like an average drunk finn.
Finland's alcohol consumption is in the middle of Europe.
Shame on you Brits.
The WHOLE episode would be fantastic. I am tired of putting up rips just so people can see them; THATS YOUR JOB!
C'mon..put em up whole and get the ad revenue or...keep chasing ghosts while UA-cam eats your lunch.
You seem unaware of the realities of television, which this is oringally made for. There are contracts for everything, including broadcasting rights, which the BBC holds. It will only be aired on tv for a period of time, to draw viewers to the channel. After it has run its course it is sold on or put on repeat on Dave. In todays world, that means UA-cam. They post full episodes, just a few seasons old. It is expensive to make a show like this, they want to make their money back first.
There are shows that air straight to YT now. Taskmaster airs directly on US YT, so they don't have to deal with American broadcasters. In the UK it will be on TV first as it is a commercial show and the channel needs to keep the advertisers happy.
This clip is to keep the QI channel high in the algorithm, so the full episodes get good exposure. The full episode will eventually be on YT, don't worry.
Its sad to see how these people who have hardly achieved anything in their life are making fun of a warhero who risked his life for his nation. I would love to see how these people, especially that grandmom and that black dude, would have coped in freezing temperatures behind enemy lines. Probably would not have laughed so much anymore
It's a funny story, but I agree. People nowadays cant even begin to comprehend what it was like and how heroic these people were.
I do not know what kind of entertainment program this is supposed to be, but I find this clip distasteful. As a Finn, I admit having heard about this incident many times and I fully understand the interest in it. But this story is about war and there is absolutely nothing to laugh about.
It's a funny story. Even if it's about war you don't have to be party pooper.
Wolverines are not native to Finland, either.
Yes they are.
Like said yep European version of Wolverines exists. But in all truth he gave a mighty beating to some Finnish tree, I believe it was birch, thinking it was this animal. Anyhow she got things wrong though. He was skiing under fire while trying to get the pills out which had frozen together due moisture in container and could not get just one. Also, it was twice he got blown up, a mine and at some door to a base which had been abandoned. Anyhow - this story was originally told by the guy himself for a writing competition on war stories a after the fact. The thing is that even though I am a Finn - I don't know why he got just second place and what the hell was the first place story about. That stated - real events though.
They indeed are. If you are Finnish you should know that there are "ahma"s here.
Definitely they are native to Finland. They are getting rarer anyway.
There's a whole team of them ;D
Even as a finn I have to say about 80% of this is pure bullsh!t.