Stalin was nominated twice for the Nobel Peace Prize, Ghandi Never won the Prize. Can you explain this to me?

Question

WTF is the nobel peace prize if Ghandi never won it, and Stalin was nominated twice "for his efforts in WW2." BTW Stalin killed more people than hitler during his tenure as Secretary General of the Soviet Union.

Answer 1

Yes, it is entirely political. I have never won it either. Nominations are actually kind of easy. While I haven't been nominated, I have written two nomination letters and the supporting documentation, for a former employer who often could nominate in Economics. Three thousand invitations for nominations for Economics are sent out each year. And past Laureates can also nominate.

Stalin was nominated because he wasn't Hitler, and because the rules of the Committee required that USSR be allowed to have some voice in the nomination process. All developed countries have representation in the nomination process. I don't know who in the USSR nominated Stalin, or whether it was due to coercion or an attempt to curry favor with the Maximum Leader. Or even if it was another party in another country motivated by reasons known only to themself.
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ARAFAT WON the Nobel Peace Prize. Most people should know him. He was head of PLO and stole hundreds of millions dollars he scammed while keeping the Game going. $300 million still missing and a wife claims it is hers.

Merton and Scholes won Nobel Prizes.

OK, those two are a little obscure, Contour may have heard of them based on his answer.

Merton and Scholes are VERY prominent Academic Economists, who won the Nobel. They went on to form Long Term Capital Management. In October 1998 they nearly bankrupted the entire world's economy with their shell game. Greenspan bailed them out.

Scholes still is one of the predominant academics in capital asset pricing. His work is flawed and still in most of the grad level finance textbooks. I have a personal animus against Scholes and Greenspan based on prior interactions.

First source is main page to Peace Prize, Second is to the other Prizes. Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo Norway and all others are awarded in Stockholm Sweden. Peace Prize is in Norway partly because Nobel recognized the political nature of the peace prize.

Answer 2

In 1944,

"Koht nominated Cordell Hull for the peace prize, but he also mentioned seven other candidates that were qualified for the peace prize. *** However, he did not explicitly nominate any of them.**** The persons mentioned were: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston S. Churchill, Anthony Eden, Josef Stalin, Max Litvinov, Edvard Benes, Jan Smuts."

In 1945, the nominator was Wladislav Rieger, Charles University,
Prague, Czech Republic.

Summary:

1. Stalin was not explicitly nominated in 1944.
2. In 1945, the nominator was from the Czech Republic, a satellite of the Soviet Union.

As you can see, circumstances and politics played a role in both nominations. Regardless, as you point out, Stalin should not have been in consideration for any type of "Peace Prize". He didn't beat Hitler. The Russian Winter and the victories by the Western Allies beat Hitler.

BTW, Gandhi was nominated 12 times. I looked at some of the info in the nomination database and saw these interesting tidbits:

In 1947, the "American Friends Service Committee" won; Gandhi was also nominated that year.

In 1948, Gandhi was nominated by - guess who - the "American Friends Service Committee"!!! But there was NO AWARD for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1948!

With a former winner nominating him the year after they ran together, and with no award being given that year, we can only imagine what kind of political skulduggery was going on. One thing is certain: the Brits hated his guts. He had a lot of nominators in 1948, and none of them were British.

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Answer 3

Nobel prizes, like many other's prestigious events are controled by Illuminati.

Hitler was a British spy, and Holocaust was the first try toward their New World Order. Prescott Bush financed Hitler, along with the British crown.
WALL STREET AND THE RISE OF HITLER
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6987303668075230852&q=

The Illuminati are forging the "right major crisis" they need to make the Nations accept their New World order, ruled by the martial law.
They are the Illuminatis, and they own us,
This is the New World Order, and it is your future if the world don't wake up :
Bush and Kerry | Skull and Bone : http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8150571337669145794&q=Bush+skull

"Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor"
Project for the New American Century (2000)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century

“Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”
Hermann Göring(Nazi) 1946 Confessions (Nuremberg Diary)
http://www.snopes2.com/quotes/goering.htm

"We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order."
David Rockefeller: Statement to the United Nations Business Council in September 1994

"For more than a century, ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with other around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - one world, if you will. If that is the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it." David Rockefellers memoirs (2002)

Make you investigations about Jesuits, the New World Order, the Illuminatis, the Free-Masonery, the Death Clan. They plan a world reduction of population of 80%...Far worse than Hitler...
They are preparing us for 2012, for the New Age, of Relelations, and the return of « God » from Nibiru.
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Answer 4

How Ironic!
"Gandhi never received the Nobel Peace Prize, though he was nominated for it five times between 1937 and 1948. Decades later, however, the Nobel Committee publicly declared its regret for the omission, and admitted to deeply divided nationalistic opinion denying the award to Gandhi. The Prize was not awarded in 1948, the year of Gandhi's death, on the grounds that "there was no suitable living candidate" that year,"

Answer 5

Something like this can only be explained by coercion. Stalin was a mass murderer (like you said) on a grander scale than Hitler, yet Hitler and the Germans are always referred to when it comes to being evil and killing people.
As with history, the nomination of Stalin for the peace prize is certainly purely politics.

Answer 6

Nominations are politically motivated. For example, in 1975, Milton A. Friedman was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economic Science. But his theories favor deregulation of corporations, and he strongly supported Republican administrations. This smacks of cronyism. Now, the entire world knows the aftermath of corporate deregulation: the destruction of the US economy, in a manner unlike the world has seen, the greatest national debt the world has seen, and an extremely bleak outlook for recovery. All of this, after Bill Clinton left the office with an actual surplus.

Answer 7

Hitler was "Time's 'Man of the Year'", and Ken Lay was considered a "great businessman". Ariel Sharon was called a "man of peace".

Those who decide who is or isn't deserving of a title or award are usually cozying up to those they fawn over for their own benefit.


"Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace."
- Tom Lehrer, comedic songwriter

Answer 8

It is purely political, and Nobel made most of his money in the Caspian Sea Oil fields.

If you were a military giant like Czechoslovakia was after WWII, you might try to curry favor with the Giant Bear on your doorstep, even lauding him as a paragon of virtue, because he had been killing people he didn't like.

Ghandi had no armed military divisions, so he didn't really pose a threat to anyone.

Answer 9

For the same reasons George Bush will never be nominated and Jimmy Carter won the prize, it is politically motivated.

Answer 10

History ias right in judging stalin