Pablo Picasso Trotskyist and anti-Stalinist André Breton was more blunt; refusing to shake hands with Picasso, he told him: "I don't approve of your joining the Communist Party nor with the stand you have taken concerning the purges of the intellectuals after the Liberation". Picasso was against the intervention of the United Nations and the United States in the Korean War and he depicted it in "Massacre in Korea". The art critic Kirsten Hoving Keen says that it is "inspired by reports of American atrocities" and considers it one of Picasso's communist works. In 1962, he received the Lenin Peace Prize. Biographer
Shlomtzion (political party) was rejected. Following this he tried to join the Alignment and then the centrist Dash, but was turned down by both. After his triple snub, Sharon resorted to forming his own party, Shlomtzion. The new party won two seats in the election, taken by Sharon and Yitzhak Yitzhaky. However, the party ceased to exist when it merged into Likud on 5 July 1977, and Sharon was made Minister of Agriculture. In 1980, Yitzhaky broke away from Likud to form his own party, One Israel. Shlomtzion (political party) Shlomtzion (, a contraction of "Shalom-Zion", or "Peace-Zion", punning on the Hebrew name