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Stalin Peace PrizeThe International Stalin Peace Prize (renamed Международная Ленинская премия За укрепление мира между народами, the International Lenin Peace Prize as a result of destalinization) was the Soviet Union's answer to the Nobel Peace Prize. It was awarded by an international panel appointed by the Soviet government to notable individuals who the panel felt had "strengthened peace among peoples". The renamed Lenin Peace Prize is apparently still being awarded by the Russian government. 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. Unlike the Nobel Prize, the Stalin Peace Prize was usually awarded to several people a year rather than to just one individual. 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. All previous recipients were asked to return their International Stalin Peace Prize so it could be replaced by the renamed International Lenin Peace Prize. There was also a Stalin Prize created in 1941 which was awarded annually to leading Soviet writers, composers, artists and scientists. List of recipients 1. 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. External links
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