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| | Joseph Stalin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Stalin was born in Gori, Georgia, to a cobbler named Vissarion Jughashvili. | | | In April 1917, Stalin was elected to the Central Committee with the third highest vote total in the party and was subsequently elected to the Politburo of the Central Committee (May 1917); he held this position for the remainder of his life. | | | Stalin and most of his classmates were Georgian and spoke mostly Georgian. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalin
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| | Political Peace Prize |
| | "Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice." - Baruch Spinoza. | | | Even the Democratic Clinton Administration was so concerned about Carter's undisciplined approach to Haiti that they sent Colin Powell with him, perhaps to act as adult supervision. | | | "Even peace can be purchased at too high a price." - Benjamin Franklin. |
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http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/politics_conservative/95698
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| | Peace Prize Forum: 1990 Program |
| | The 1990 Peace Prize Forum will be held at Augsburg College in Minneapolis, Minnesota. | | | Became University Distinguished Professor at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1982. | | | Now practicing law, teaching, studying, traveling in the United States and internationally, and serving as a corporate director. |
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http://www.stolaf.edu/nppf/1990
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| | Harvard Gazette: Peace prize winner at JFK Jr. Forum |
| | She was appointed president of the Tehran city court in 1975. | | | She was also the first female lawyer in Iran to become a judge. | | | Ebadi, the founder of the Association for Support of Children's Rights in Iran, spoke Tuesday (May 11) at the Kennedy School's JFK Jr. |
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http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2004/05.13/03-ebadi.html
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| | Gandhi and Nobel Peace Prize |
| | However, controversially, the Peace Prize was to be awarded by a committee elected by the lower house of the Norwegian Storting (parliament). | | | An amendment of the rules of the Norwegian Nobel Committee to exclude persons who held Cabinet positions in the Norwegian government was introduced in 1937. | | | When he was again proposed in 1931, it was known that, having reached the statutory age limit, he had decided to resign as a Permanent Secretary, and that after that he would obviously feel free to accept the prize. |
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http://www.mkgandhi.org/nobel/nobelpeaceprize.htm
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| | Paul Robeson - Thoughts on Winning the Stalin Peace Prize |
| | Wallace was hailed by vast throngs when he resigned from Truman's cabinet in protest against the war-mongering of the then Secretary of State James Byrnes, now the Negro-hating governor of South Carolina. | | | It is a matter of pride to share the award with such distinguished leaders as Yves Farge of France; Sayfuddin Kichloo, spokesman for the All-Indian Congress of Peace; Eliza Branco, a leader of the Fedn. | | | The prize which I have just received will spur me on to greater efforts than ever before to serve the cause of peace and to aid in building a triumphant peace movement in the United States. |
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http://www.mltranslations.org/Miscellaneous/RobesonSPP.htm
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| | The Nobel Peace Prize 1975 - Presentation Speech |
| | The aim of this committee was to work, within the framework of the law, to institute constructive reforms for the promotion of human rights, in accordance with the humanist principles formulated in the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights of 1948. | | | Uncompromisingly and with unflagging strength Sakharov has fought against the abuse of power and all forms of violation of human dignity, and he has fought no less courageously for the idea of government based on the rule of law. | | | Sakharov's "Manifesto" is not based only on conditions in his own country; it is written from a global point of view and constitutes an earnest appeal for peace to responsible men and women in every country. |
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http://nobelprize.org/peace/laureates/1975/press.html
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| | Peace |
| | 1799 George Washington is eulogized by Col Henry Lee as "1st in war, 1st in peace and 1st in hearts of his countrymen" | | | 1963 John XXIII encyclical On peace in truth, justice, charity and liberty | | | 1922 IVVV (association) peace congress on war forms in Hague |
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http://www.brainyhistory.com/topics/p/peace.html
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| | Leftists and the Cold War |
| | This was strongly suspected for the 40 years that Bridges ran the union until his retirement in 1977. | | | Columbia University has a civil liberties chair that strangely honors Corliss Lamont, an apologist for Stalin, Mao, and their B-list impersonators. | | | The propagandist, who is currently doted upon by scores of colleges and universities, won the Lenin Peace Prize in 1959, shortly thereafter joined the Communist Party, and then renounced his American citizenship. |
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http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2004/9/27/103124.shtml
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| | The Stalin Piano |
| | In the spring of 1949 his son, Yuri, married Stalin's daughter,... | | | Shostakovich wrote his second piano concerto in 1957 as a birthday gift for his... | | | Ol' Uncle Joe Stalin Had a Piano-Player
- Ol' Uncle Joe Stalin had a piano-player, And he would hammer rock'n'roll songs on it all night long. |
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http://www.pianothings.com/the-stalin-piano.html
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| | Fast, Howard on Encyclopedia.com |
| | He served a prison term (1950) for refusing to cooperate with the House Committee on Un-American Activities, and his books were purged from American school libraries; in 1953 he was awarded the Stalin Peace Prize. | | | The Naked God (1957) is an account of Fast's political experiences, and the memoir Being Red (1990) further explores the issues involved. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/F/Fast-H1ow.asp
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| | national journal: "Driving out the Jews, that means peace" |
| | Everybody now-a-days is a father, there is father Mussolini and father Hitler and father Roosevelt and father Stalin and father Trotzky..." | | | This was disclosed by Gustav Hendrikksen, a former member of the Nobel committee and now professor emeritus of Bible studies at Sweden's Uppsala University, in Nativ, a political magazine published in Israel. | | | As astonishing at it may seem today, in 1938 many credited Hitler for his numerous efforts to secure lasting peace in Europe on the basis of equal rights of nations. |
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http://globalfire.tv/nj/03en/jews/ah_for_peaceprize.htm
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| | Reds Renounced by Howard Fast - by Harry Schwartz |
| | Revelations of anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union also influenced his decision. | | | Nikita S. Khrushchev's secret speech last year exposing Stalin was the chief factor leading to his present position, Mr. | | | Asserting that he had been a devoted Communist because of his belief in democracy, equalitarianism and social justice, Mr. |
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http://www.trussel.com/hf/renounce.htm
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| | AMAsearchdetail |
| | He emigrated to Britain in 1958, returning to the United States in 1963. | | | Embittered by the treatment of African Americans in the U.S., Robeson was an outspoken champion of communist causes and received the Stalin Peace Prize in 1952. | | | As a singer, Paul Robeson is most remembered for his version of "Ol' Man River" in Show Boat (stage 1928, film 1936) and for his interpretations of Negro spirituals. |
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http://www.fofweb.com/onfiles/ama/amasearchdetail.asp?recordpin=8079
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| | Stalinism - encyclopedia article about Stalinism. |
| | After Stalin's death in 1953, his successor Nikita Khrushchev repudiated his policies, condemned Stalin's cult of personality in his Secret Speech to the Twentieth Party Congress in 1956, and instituted destalinization and liberalisation (within the same political framework). | | | Stalinism is a brand of political theory, and the political A political system is a social system of politics and government. | | | Stalin and his supporters, in his own time and since, have highlighted the notion that socialism can be built and consolidated in just one country, even one as underdeveloped as Russia was during the 1920s, and indeed that this might be the only means in which it could be built in a hostile environment. |
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http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Stalinism
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| | Lenin Peace Prize - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Mandela was awarded the Lenin Peace Prize in 1962 but, due to his trial and imprisonment in South Africa, was unable to accept the prize until 2002. | | | Following Nikita Khrushchev's denunciation of Stalin at the Twentieth Party Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union held in 1956 the prize was renamed the International Lenin Peace Prize. | | | The Stalin Peace Prize was created in 1949 by the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in honor of Josef Stalin's seventieth birthday. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalin_Peace_Prize
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| | Paul Robeson: Definition and Much More From Answers.com |
| | During a 1952 tour of the United States a concert was organized at the International Peace Arch on the border between Washington State and British Columbia. | | | Robeson's association with Communist causes and his winning of the International Stalin Peace Prize (1952) made him a controversial figure in the United States. | | | This outspokenness, together with sympathies expressed towards the Soviet Union and Joseph Stalin in particular, his membership in the CPUSA and his frequent trips to the Soviet Union led to his being investigated by the FBI under J. |
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http://www.answers.com/topic/paul-robeson
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| | On Receiving the Stalin Peace Award, by Howard Fast |
| | This prize, awarded to me and to many others by an international jury, originates in the Soviet Union. | | | This prize is called the Stalin International Peace Award; and I would depart from all reality if I were to maintain, even here before so many friends, that either the prize or the name it bears is greatly honored by the men who govern my country. | | | As Dr. Du Bois stated, the jury wished to present the prize to Fast in person, but the U.S. State Department had refused the writer a visa. |
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http://www.trussel.com/hf/plots/t590.htm
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| | Shark Blog: The Sharkansky Peace Prize |
| | My nominee for the Sharkansky Prize for 1938, 1945 & 1949 is George Orwell for his for his classic works, Homage to Catalonia, Animal Farm and 1984. | | | But the Sharkansky Peace Prize allows the appropriate use of force in the service of justice and lasting peace. | | | Eichmann was a despicable war criminal par excellence, but Israel’ apprehending him was a violation of Nazi-haven Argentina’s sovereignty, you understand. |
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| | Laureates of Peace, by Howard Fast |
| | For his patriotic dedication to peace and freedom he has suffered jail, inquisitions by McCarthy, the banning of his widely admired novels by the State Department, blacklisting by commercial publishers. | | | This high honor fittingly goes to a writer who has long distinguished himself for his rich and tireless contribution to the cause of world peace. | | | The Stalin Prize dramatizes the world role of Howard Fast, just as the 1952 award to Paul Robeson symbolized the esteem in which that great artist is held by all progressive humanity. |
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http://www.trussel.com/hf/plots/t592.htm
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| | Horsefeathers: Nobel Peace Prize Announcement |
| | Through an unfortunate misunderstanding of his motives he was arrested, convicted of treason and shot. | | | He was appointed premier in 1942 continuing to carry out Hitler's peaceful agenda until the war ended. | | | It is with special pride that the Norwegian Peace Prize committee selects one of its own countrymen. |
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| | Frédéric Joliot-Curie: Information From Answers.com |
| | Frédéric Joliot was a member of the French Academy of Sciences and of the Academy of Medicine and named a Commander of the Legion of Honour, He was awarded the Stalin Peace Prize in 1951 for his work as president of the World Council of Peace. | | | Although he retained his professorship at the Collège de France, on the death of his wife in 1956, he took over her position as Chair of Nuclear Physics at the Sorbonne. | | | He devoted the last years of his life to the creation of a centre for nuclear physics at Orsay. |
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| | Winners of the Ig® Nobel Prize |
| | Viliumas Malinauskus of Grutas, Lithuania, for creating the amusement park known as "Stalin World" | | | ACCEPTING: The winners were unable to attend the ceremony because they could not obtain United States visas to visit the United States. | | | Lal Bihari, of Uttar Pradesh, India, for a triple accomplishment: First, for leading an active life even though he has been declared legally dead; Second, for waging a lively posthumous campaign against bureaucratic inertia and greedy relatives; and Third, for creating the Association of Dead People. |
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| | The Hindu : Miscellaneous / This Day That Age : dated April 30, 1954: Foreign awards |
| | The propriety of Indian nationals accepting foreign titles and awards was questioned in the House of the People on April 29 by some members when Prof. | | | D.C. Sharma asked about Indian nationals receiving the Stalin Peace Prize. | | | Anil K. Chanda, said that Dr. Kitchlew received the Stalin Peace Prize in 1952, and Major General S.S. Sokhey in 1953. |
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| | Daimnation!: ElBaradei, IAEA win Nobel Peace Prize |
| | By and large, there are three categories of Nobel Peace Prize winners: brave dissidents who put their very lives on the line while fighting totalitarian oppression; political leaders who achieve landmark peace agreements or diplomatic triumphs; or relatively toothless but supposedly well-intentioned international organizations, as often as not associated with the UN. | | | Personally, I would have awarded the Prize to someone who led this past year's democratic uprisings in Lebanon, Ukraine or Turkmenistan. | | | The IAEA's director is a "fearless advocate" of curbing nuclear arms while the importance of his agency's work is "incalculable", the citation says. |
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| | Ignoble Nobels: Peace Prize is a joke |
| | Nowhere on the list of Peace Prize winners will one find the names Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, Charles De Gaulle, Ronald Reagan, John F. Kennedy or others who worked to achieve real peace by standing up to tyrants. | | | It’s a kick in the leg to all that follow the same line as the United States.” | | | It is awarded almost exclusively to those who talk incessantly about peace, “social justice” and human rights, but whose actions do very little, if anything, to free anyone from oppression or establish lasting peace. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited Books News Howard Fast |
| | He was the one truly popular American writer to remain loyal to the Communist party until 1956, when Khrushchev's so-called "secret speech" on Stalin's crimes, and the Red army's crushing of the Hungarian revolution, led three-quarters of the membership of the American Communist party to quit. | | | Fast later showed himself to be an insightful diagnostician of the way good people, worthy of affection and respect, were degraded, humiliated, lied to and betrayed by Stalin and his conscienceless henchmen in the American party. | | | The title for his 1957 study, The Naked God: The Writer And Communism, was drawn from a brief, brilliant passage reflecting on the East German Stalinist leader Walther Ulbricht: "He has lost touch with humankind. |
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| | Bertolt Brecht |
| | Fled from Germany to the United States during World War II but returned in 1948 to work with the Berliner Ensemble. | | | Won the Kleist Prize (Germany’s most prestigious literary award) in 1922. |
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| | Commentary Magazine - Showdown, by Jorge Amado |
| | ...For this settlement has sprung not from "well-being, peace, and brotherhood" but from a mass murder in a war between cacao colonels of the northeast, a war in which the gunmen of one side, led by a partIndian foreman named Natario da Fonseca, have waylaid and massacred the hired killers of another... | | | ...Its epicenter for his purposes is the (fictional) modern city of Irisopolis, "a community born out of the rainbow on a distant day of well-being, peace, and brotherhood among men... | | | ...These stories helped to earn him the Stalin Peace Prize in 1951, and have kept him on the Soviet charts of progressive literary internationalism... |
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| | Howard Fast, political radical, author of 'Spartacus' |
| | Many of his historical novels were set during the American Revolution. | | | In 1953 he became the only American besides Paul Robeson, a close friend of Fast, to win the Stalin International Peace Prize. | | | But Fast wrote critically about Soviet leader Josef Stalin and left the party after the Soviet Union's crushing of an uprising in Hungary. |
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| | An advocate of African-American rights, Robeson was honored with the Stalin Peace Prize (awarded 1952, accepted 1958). | | | He enjoyed great success in Black Boy (date unknown) and Othello (1930) and is remembered for his version of "Ole Man River" from the London production of Show Boat (1928). |
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| | The Ig Nobel Web Page |
| | The Ig Nobel Prize ceremony at Harvard University's Sanders Theatre. | | | The ceremony is co-sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe Science Fiction Association (HRSFA) and the Harvard-Radcliffe Society of Physics Students (SPS), and the book Ig Nobel Prizes 2, published by E.P. Dutton, New York, ISBN 0525949127. | | | 2004 Ig Nobel Peace Prize winner Daisuke Inoue -- the inventor of karaoke -- is serenaded by Nobel Laureates Dudley Herschbach (left), Richard Roberts and William Lipscomb, and by Karen Hopkin. |
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| | Stalin Prize biography .ms |
| | The Stalin Prize was a different honour than the Stalin Peace Prize which was created in 1947 and was usually awarded to foreign recipients rather than to Soviet citizens. | | | Often the prize was awarded to specific works rather than to individuals. | | | It was created in 1941 and awarded annually individuals in the fields of science, literatature, arts and mathematics to honour achievements which either advanced the Soviet Union or the cause of socialism. |
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| | On January 21st, the US Postal Service is going to issue a stamp honoring Paul Robeson, who was aware of the evils of Stalinism and yet still supported it wholeheartedly: | | | * Was awarded the Stalin Peace Prize in 1952. | | | * Greeted the promulgation of Josef Stalin's "Constitution" in 1936 as "an expression of democracy, broader in scope and loftier in principle than ever before expressed." |
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http://commonsensewonder.com/mtarchives/004521.shtml
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| | Pablo Neruda |
| | Born on July 12, 1904 in Parral, Chile, Pablo Neruda received numerous prestigious awards, including the International Peace Prize in 1950, the Lenin Peace Prize and the Stalin Peace Prize in 1953. | | | Our bilingual edition is seen by many as the most intimate and passionate volume of Neruda's love poetry, capturing all the erotic energy of a new love. | | | In 1971, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. |
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| | Trophy - Nobel Peace Prize |
| | The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the Nobel Peace Prize for 1998 | | | Nobel Peace Prize 1998 John Hume and David Trimble | | | HotAIR Ig Nobel Home The Ig® Nobel Home Page Viliumas Malinauskus, founder of Stalin World, accepting the 2001 Ig Nobel Peace Prize. |
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http://www.flytrophy.com/nobelpeaceprize
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