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.

  • Vncredleader
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    1 year ago

    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

    • SaniFlush [any, any]
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      1 year ago

      Armenia getting anything close to a break is a damn miracle, yeah

      • GVAGUY3 [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        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.

        • Vncredleader
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          1 year ago

          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.

          • GVAGUY3 [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            And now they are having their ethnic enclaves and political gradually chipped away losing even more territory