Politics Can Still Make Hergé's First Story an Uncomfortable Read
Starving children must declare their allegiance to the communist party to be fed, the communists win an election with guns not votes, and English visitors see what appear to be functioning factories which are just puppet shows. In other words, Tintin, who is arrested and taken to a torture chamber, sees exactly what Hergé's editor, a Roman Catholic priest, wanted him to see in the land of the godless communists.
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