I always love how this book is dismissed for its propagandistic anti-Soviet content when he was basically right on the rubbishness of actually existing communism. Though I suppose there is good propaganda and bad propaganda.
Do Tintin's combat abilities become more realistic as the books progress? In The Blue Lotus (one of several books I have read some of in a language other than English) he at one point is able to beat up four burly Sikh MPs in the International Concession in Shanghai.
he was basically right on the rubbishness of actually existing communism
You know a lot more about the early Soviet period than I do, but it was news to me that Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin hid the riches they stole from the Russian people in a vault under a fake haunted house!!!!! (Of course Communism was a very valid target, but Hergé was no Orwell, especially at this stage of his career.)
Do Tintin's combat abilities become more realistic as the books progress?
Yes; or, rather, he starts using his brain more frequently than his fists to get out of trouble (though continues to display a magical ability to dodge bullets fired at close range). The Blue Lotus is still one of the early ones.
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Do Tintin's combat abilities become more realistic as the books progress? In The Blue Lotus (one of several books I have read some of in a language other than English) he at one point is able to beat up four burly Sikh MPs in the International Concession in Shanghai.
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You know a lot more about the early Soviet period than I do, but it was news to me that Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin hid the riches they stole from the Russian people in a vault under a fake haunted house!!!!! (Of course Communism was a very valid target, but Hergé was no Orwell, especially at this stage of his career.)
Do Tintin's combat abilities become more realistic as the books progress?
Yes; or, rather, he starts using his brain more frequently than his fists to get out of trouble (though continues to display a magical ability to dodge bullets fired at close range). The Blue Lotus is still one of the early ones.
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Now I want to read Flann Brionovich's "Cuttings from the Kruschev Lawn"
Sorry -- needs work!
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