I say double kudos to the 1962 Sharkansky Peace Prize winners, since their actions in apprehending Eichmann in Argentina were officially criticized by the United Nations Security Council, thus showing once again that Council’s idiotarian anti-Israel predilections. Eichmann was a despicable war criminal par excellence, but Israel’ apprehending him was a violation of Nazi-haven Argentina’s sovereignty, you understand.

For 1941, how about Georgi Zhukov and the Russian Army, for halting Germany's advance near Moscow and proving once again that the first rule of war is "Never invade Russia."

1942 nominations:

General Bernard Montgomery and the British Eighth Army for defeating the Afrika Korps at El Alamein, the tide-turning point of the African campaign

Admiral Chester Nimitz and the US Navy for defeating Japan at Midway, the tide-turning point of the Pacific naval campaign

Leo Szliard and Albert Einstien in 1941 (I may be off on the date) for giving the heads up to Roosevelt concerning the Atomic Bomb

I have visited this site for some days now, and must say that it is really getting cheap and unreflected. What a pity, as I thought this would be quite interesting. But the intellectual poverty here increases with every day, as does one-sidedness.

Sorry you're disappointed, "hans". You chose to stay anonymous but I can see that you have a German IP address. You don't say exactly why you were disappointed by the Sharkansky Peace Prize. But perhaps it was because some of the Peace Prizes were awarded to those helped liberate Germany from Nazism and a few others to those who helped defend Germany from Communism

In any event, you might think that I'm intellectually impoverished, but unlike you, I state my reasons whenever I critique somebody else's words and deeds and I also give my real name with my opinions.

I wonder what "hans" would think about this nomination. Then again, no I don't:

1947--George Marshall for committing the US to the rebuilding of Europe via the Marshall Plan

Mark Weber, Historical Review, for his article on Gertrude Stein

Hi Stefan,
Great idea and a real slap in the face of those pompus self-rightous fools in Oslo. 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. All three of these works spoke out against the preversion of Democratic Socialism by the Communists. Although Animal Farm and 1984 are the more familar of the three, giving us the terms that are considered Orwellian,i.e. War is Peace, Freedom is Slavery, clocks striking 13 and all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal then others etec. It is Homage to Catalonia that is most important because it was the result of Orwell observing first hand in the Spainish Civil War a totaltarian police state in action and how it target groups that were not under their control and by propganda, accusations, slanders,hate and show trials destroyed them. Orwell was stunned to see this being done not by the Facists, who he was fighting against, but by the Communists who were supposedly on the same side as Orwell and his fellow independent leftists. The miltia group Orwell was fighting with, the POUM was accussed,ridiculusly of being a Facist fifth column and was outlawed, it leaders were arrested and its members including Orwell had to flee for their lives. Orwell and his wife were lucky to have gotten out of Spain since the Communist Secret Police had Orwell high up on their list of wanted opponents. Orwell's insistence on telling the truth of this, when he back in Britain, made him an outcast among most of his fellow leftists, this was the period of the United Front against Facism, who did not want to deal with the uncomfortable truth that Stalin and the Communists were as totaltarian as the Facists. It was this experience that gave Orwell the background to potray in his latter works, particularly 1984, the shortages, the drabness, the suspicions and fears of a totaltarian society where the individual exists only as part of the mass society. People who have lived in the Soviet Bloc, were able to get out and then read Orwell, especially 1984 were astonished to see how accurately Orwell had potrayed the Soviet System and wondered how many years Orwell had spent in a communist country.

"ASINUS ASINUM FRICAT", they used to say. Naturally, you will not know what that means, your cultural background is way too narrow. But you will look it up... The, perhaps Mother Nature will give you access, for a split second, to Intelligence, and you shall understand the meaning of this comment...

I am also sorry to note that a recent UofMichigan PhD recipient has been participating in this farce. Once again the confirmation that a PhD does not necessarily make a man smart. He definitely should have spent more time on his thesis rather than on this crappy pseudo-interesting site... "That explains this", undoubtedly...

Some more nominations:

1992: Ronald Reagan to share with Boris Yeltsin, for ending Soviet Union.

1990: Helmut Kohl for reunification of Germany by accepting the 5 eastern Länder as equals, instead of some sort of second-class status. Shared prize with Vaclav Havel.

1988: Ronald Reagan for rolling back communism.

1986 Corazon Aquino, for ending dictatorship in the Philippines.

(Elie Weisel's prize delayed to 1987, as I didn't see anything that made 1986 special for him, and didn't find anything particularly good for 1987.)

1984 Desmond Tutu, per the Nobel committee
1977 Amnesty International, ditto

1974 Aleksandr Solzhyenitsyn for revealing the truth about the Soviet Union and being expelled.

1973 Golda Meir for defense of Israel against invasion

1971 Lt. Gen. Jagjit Singh Aurora for liberating Bangladesh from Pakistani dictatorship.

1970 Norman Borlaug, for saving one billion lives.