Injuries from glass shards hospitalized him for 45 days, where he developed pneumonia and sepsis, which ended his swimming career.
I think if you leap into a reservoir to save drowning children, especially if the situation was caused by a runaway trolley, you should also get an honorary philosophy degree.
In a less shitty timeline, people like that would be the most commonly known heroes, not some rich asshole that got rich by fucking people over. :sicko-wistful:
imagine how much better society would be if children grew up idolizing people like this guy.
You don't like hearing about all the 'self made' millionaires and billionaires who got there by
the connections their family had and by exploiting workers and friends every step of the waytrue grit?
born to rescue
world is a fuck
save em all 1989
i am swim man
410,757,864,530 SAVED PROLES
Subsequent lung complications prevented Karapetyan from continuing his sports career.[6] He did, however, insist on one last meet despite his damaged lungs, and managed to set a new world record despite the haze of pain
:soviet-chad:
it's like the soviet version of forrest gump, only instead of a southerner named after a slaver being present at major events of bourgeois history, it's this guy just happening by horrifying disasters his whole life, saving proletarians. he's like soviet superman.
I thought the amount of medals was a bit ridicolous but having read that, he honestly should have more
OMG so he is super in touch with Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh and when he carried the torch for Russia muring the Moscow Olympics he said
"I was carrying the torch for Russia and for Armenia.
He is a wholesome example of post collapse Soviet solidarity
Surrounded by countries that hate them, only country that doesn't hate them is Russia, which makes them bad in the eyes of the west. Armenia legit is such a tragic country.
And going back to immediate post-WW1 history, even outside the genocide, they lost more territory, the eventual treaty forming Transcaucasia was unfair and lost them all that Turkey was occupying. They tried to renegotiate but it was denied, and over the decades Turkey would repeatedly throw fits over Mt. Ararat being on emblems.
And now they are having their ethnic enclaves and political gradually chipped away losing even more territory
Don't tarnish his reputation by associating him with philosophy graduates please.
What would the western headline look like for this event if it happened in 2023?
Looks like he got three medals per person saved. I'm not saying he didn't deserve them but damn.
He also saved another bus load of people in '74, as well as running into a burning building to save people in '85. And on top of that he was an incredibly accomplished swimmer. Dude deserves his chestful of medals more than anyone
With that much happening around you I'd start thinking you cause all that stuff
On top of his other two rescues, he actually pulled 37 people out of that bus, not 20.
Sorry, but you undersell it. "In total he dove 20 times, each dive lasting about 25 seconds, and pulled out a total of 37 people."
Unfortunately 17 of them died afterwards due to their injuries.
