It was a prize similar to the Nobel Peace Prize, given annually by the Soviet Union to individuals who had contributed to the cause of peace among peoples.
Its official name in its beginnings was the Stalin Peace Prize among the peoples and, after the de-Stalinization, the Lenin Peace Prize among the peoples.
The prize was created in 1949 by decree of the Presidium in honor of Stalin, who supposedly fulfilled that year, seventy years-in fact, he was seventy-one. Unlike its equivalent, the Nobel Peace Prize, the Stalin Prize – and subsequently the Lenin Prize – was awarded annually to several people instead of a single individual.
Following the denunciation of Nikita Khrushchev against Stalinism at the Party’s twentieth congress in 1956, the prize was renamed, changing the reference to Stalin by Lenin. As a result, the prizewinners were asked to reimburse the prizes awarded in order to replace them with the Lenin Awards.
In 1989 the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet changed the name of the prize to Prize Lenin of the Peace and two years later it stopped granting itself.
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