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tiatia on Oct 10, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Nobel Peace Prize for 2014

What is so great about the Nobel peace prize if even a war criminal extraordinaire like Churchill can get it?

Besides the death of thousands of German civilians:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repatriation_of_Cossacks_after_...

http://www.thebirdman.org/Index/Others/Others-Doc-History/+D...

The only odd thing about this picture is: One guy is missing: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Yalta_sum...

tiatia on Oct 10, 2014 | [–]

So, after Churchill and Yasser Arafat, I see Robert Mugabe and Fidel Castro as serious contenders. Osama Bin Laden is out of the question since you have to be alive to receive the prize.

kryptiskt on Oct 10, 2014 | [–]

Churchill got the literature prize, not the peace prize.

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