Rentified assessment

Would you give the Nobel Prize of the World Edward Snowden? Is he worthy of this award or not? Everyone discusses the most acute issue of modernity and with pleasure feels a little bit of the Norwegian Nobel Committee. The seriousness of the discussion goes off scale. It's time for a cold shower.

If the scientific Nobel prizes were awarded the same as the World Award, everyone would have long been lying with laughter. The prize in physics would be received by the Russian inventor of the filters Viktor Petrik, and the award in physiology and medicine is a healer charged with water Alan Chumak. The Economics Award would probably get Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, who opened that the economy should be economical.

Thank God, everything is in order with scientific awards. Another thing is the world award. The apotheosis of the absurd was the award of the Nobel Prize in 1994 to one of the leaders of the Palestinian terrorists Yasir Arafat. He shared this award with Israeli politicians by Izzhak Rabin and Shimon Perez for "efforts to achieve peace in the Middle East." The Arafata Award is like a serial killer the Order for killing fifty people, he stopped and promised not to kill anymore.

In approximately the same in 1973, the world of the world was a prominent Vietnamese communist Le Duck THO. He shared this prize with US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger for Parisian agreements that stopped the war and opened the way to establish totalitarian communist regimes in the countries of Indochina. After the departure from Indochina of American troops in only one Cambodia in four years, the communist regime of Paul sweat was destroyed, according to different sources, 3-4 million people. Such was the price of "peace" in Indochina.

The Nobel Peace Prize and dictators of moderate bloodthirstiness went to. In 1978, Egyptian President Anvar Sadat, who kept Egypt in hedgehog mittens for 11 years, as, indeed, his predecessors and his successors.

In 1990, the Nobel Prize of the World received the Secretary General of the CPSU Central Committee Mikhail Gorbachev, exactly the year when the Soviet army suppressed civil speeches in Dushanbe and Baku by his order. And exactly on the eve of the year when the same Soviet army, on his own orders, arranged a bloodshed in Vilnius and Riga. Between the two sips of blood, Gorbachev managed to acquire the Nobel Prize of the world.

It would be unfair not to mention the decent laureates of the award. Of course, they were. In 1964-Martin Luther King, in 1975-Andrey Dmitrievich Sakharov, in 1979-mother of Teresa, in 1983-Leh Valens, in 1991-Aun San Su Ji, in 2010-Liu Xiauli.

It can even be said that decent laureates were more than frankly indecent, and most of the rest were politicians, diplomats, international organizations, status human rights activists and important people in well -deserved resignation. The lack of clear criteria and political engagement led to the obvious devaluation of the Nobel Prize of the World. A spoon of tar can ruin a barrel of honey.

Already just like a mockery of the status of a world award was her award in 2009 recently elected US President Barack Obama. In general, it is not clear for what. It seems that he did not kill anyone, like Arafat, did not save anyone, like Teresa's mother; Is it that John McCain won the presidential election?

Once upon a time, the status of the Nobel laureate still protected the fighters with dictatorship, at least in the communist countries. As the prize devaluation with it is considered less and less. The Iranian human rights activist Shirin Ebadi Iran’s authorities simply confiscated the medal and the Nobel diploma that received the Nobel Prize in 2003. The Chinese dissident Liuzovich, who received in 2010, was still in prison. He is serving a 11-year term for imprisonment for his human rights activities. No one is going to release him, and the distribution of Nobel Awards of the world goes on as usual.

Perhaps the sad fate of the Nobel Prize was a foregone conclusion during its establishment. In 1888, Alfred Nobel, the largest weapons industrialist and inventor of dynamite, read his own necrologist in the French newspaper called "death dealer dead." It was an annoying mistake of reporters. They say that this journalistic blunder forced Alfred Nobel to think about how he will remain in the memory of the descendants. He changed his testament and established a prize. All would be nothing, but the world award, helped out of the invention and trading of dynamite ... it was doomed.

Edward Snowden, and at the same time all of us should not worry about the Nobel Prize. In addition to a million dollars and a golden trinket, it costs nothing, does not protect anything from anything and does not promise anything.