The GREATEST HERO Of The Soviet Union: Shavarsh Karapetyan

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🗓️ 25 November 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Volumes have been said about Shavarsh Karapetyan’s selfless act of heroism: he has been featured in a myriad of articles, several films and a book. His rescue of 20 people from drowning, which cost the world champion in finswimming his health and further achievements in a brilliant athletic career, was so impressive that an asteroid was named after him. He is a true badass and hero and this is his story. Travel to Turkey with me here Check out our sister podcast the Mystery of Everything Coffee Collab With The Lore Lodge COFFEE Bonus episodes as well as ad-free episodes on Patreon. Find us on Instagram. Join us on Discord. Submit your relatives on our website Podcast Youtube Channel Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:38.2	Hello, my friends, Sakui here.
0:39.9	And before it is that we get into today's episode, I just want to go ahead and clarify
0:42.6	something from the beginning.
0:43.9	This is actually this week's YouTube episode, which when I went in and started to make
0:49.2	this episode, I was trying to go and get back into my badasses of history series, something that I had actually started out doing on TikTok and people loved.
0:58.4	Unfortunately, it seems that the YouTube algorithm itself was not so kind.
1:03.7	It was not nearly as appreciated.
1:06.1	But I know that for you all who listen here to the podcast, that this is something that you enjoy.
1:10.2	You love hearing about these varying different figures of history who did amazing things,
1:15.0	who were grand figures of history that perhaps people maybe haven't even heard of in the first place.
1:20.9	So the story that I'm going to be telling you here today, this is perhaps one of the greatest
1:25.5	Armenian heroes that has ever existed.
1:29.0	Not from actions on the battlefield, nothing like that.
1:32.3	Specifically from saving people's lives.
1:35.1	This person is a hero in every sense of the word, and I hope that by the end of today's
1:39.3	episode, you will understand that.
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