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by pessimizer
4695 days ago
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Peace through victory? Maybe they should have a separate Nobel Peace Through Victory prize that you get for killing the most civilians that year in order to create a lasting peace. At least I'd know where to aim my spit. The mixed-up nature of the current prize is for the birds. |
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No awards during WWI except to the International Red Cross (ICRC).
1927: Ferdinand Buisson, France, Ludwig Quidde, Germany: "[For] contributions to Franco-German popular reconciliation" Well, at least they tried....
Same for WWII; the ICRC did fully earn their prizes to my knowledge.
While he didn't get an award for it, George Marshall was the USArmy Chief of Staff, top dog in uniform along with Admiral Ernest King.
It was rather delayed, but Begin and Sadat's 1978 prize ratified Israel's 1967 Six-Day War victory.
Excepting perhaps Norman Borlaug (Green Revolution), Lech Wałęsa (key role in the peaceful end of the Cold War), and Gorbachev (ditto, not that that was his intent), I don't think any of the awardees, or possibly all of them combined, did as much for "peace" (saving lives) as Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin did in ending WWII (Stalin of course gets a big asterisk because he was instrumental in starting it, and didn't join the other side until a figurative gun was at his head (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Barbarossa) ).
E.g. the "Greater East-Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere" was killing an estimated quarter million people a month when we terminated with extreme prejudice Imperial Japan 68 years ago this week.