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Recipients of the Lenin Peace Prize
- Nelson MandelaRolihlahla Mandela was born on the 18th of July 1918, in the village of Mvezo, and the name his father chose carried a warning.
- Pablo PicassoPablo Picasso once stood in his occupied-Paris apartment as a German officer noticed a photograph of his painting Guernica.
- Nikita KhrushchevNikita Khrushchev stood before a closed session of the 20th Party Congress on the 25th of February 1956, and in four hours dismantled the reputation of a man…
- Fidel CastroFidel Alejandro Castro Ruz delivered the longest speech ever heard before the United Nations General Assembly, speaking for four and a half hours in 1960.
- Indira GandhiOn the 31st of October 1984, Indira Gandhi walked toward a wicket gate in the garden at 1 Safdarjung Road in New Delhi. Two of her own Sikh bodyguards stood…
- Leonid BrezhnevLeonid Ilyich Brezhnev died on the 10th of November 1982, and within days, leaders from Cuba, Nicaragua, Mozambique, Afghanistan, and India had declared…
- W. E. B. Du BoisW. E. B. Du Bois died on the 27th of August 1963 in Accra, Ghana, at the age of 95. The very next day, hundreds of thousands of Americans gathered in…
- SukarnoSukarno was born Koesno Sosrodihardjo on the 6th of June 1901, in Surabaya, East Java, the son of a Muslim Javanese primary school teacher and a Hindu…
- Urho KekkonenUrho Kaleva Kekkonen was born in a smoke sauna in a small cabin in Pielavesi, Finland, on the 3rd of September 1900. His father had built a chimney in the…
- Angela DavisAngela Davis grew up on a street her Birmingham neighbors called "Dynamite Hill" - a name earned through the bombings of homes belonging to middle-class…
- Linus PaulingLinus Carl Pauling stands alone in the history of Nobel Prizes. He is the only person ever to have been awarded two unshared Nobel Prizes, one for Chemistry…