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Author: ges 🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: A precedent for Machado's gift to Trump
Date: 01/16/26 7:15 PM
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Machado appears to be the first person to give away her medal for such explicitly political reasons, although in 1943 the Norwegian writer Knut Hamsun gifted his decoration to Hitler’s propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, as a sign of his admiration for the Nazis.
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Author: marco100   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: A precedent for Machado's gift to Trump
Date: 01/16/26 7:39 PM
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The Nobel Prize committee itself gives Peace Prizes away for expressly political reaspons. So, no, Machado is not "the first" to do so.
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Author: PucksFool 🐝  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: A precedent for Machado's gift to Trump
Date: 01/17/26 4:29 AM
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And the Norwegians gave us the term quisling for "a traitor who collaborates with an enemy force occupying their country."*

*Definition copied from the dictionary on my computer.
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