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Muhammad Ali supposedly threw away his medal from the 1964 Olympics as a protest over his punishment for refusing to fight in the Vietnam War; John Lennon returned his MBE in protest over Britain's involvement in the Biafra war in Nigeria as well as Vietnam; Boris Pasternak won the 1958 Nobel Prize for Literature but after initially accepting it he changed his mind under pressure from the USSR government.