powers and the soviet union to agree so his resettlement project failed. took this very hard he quit the league of nations for failing to support him. in one nine hundred forty seven and tens of thousands followed stalin s call to come and start a new life in the soviet republic of armenia. but for a joke manson didn t live to see. the old. me of one thousand nine hundred thirty. thousands of norwegians flocking to his state funeral to pay their last respects to a famous polar explorer international diplomat and nobel peace prize laureate.