Tintin decides to do a story on the Soviet Union and straight away the commies try to kill him. This is the first of the Tintin adventures and Herge later withdrew it from circulation, so he never redrew or recoloured it - as a result it is in black and white with a very basic style - even Tintin looks a little odd.
Totally fascinating - totally bigoted against the Soviets and commies (they have false factories to dupe foreigners, Stalin/Lenin/Trotsky are shown to have pinched all the money).
It has pace and wit of a kind (I enjoyed the scene where Tintin is driving along trying to escape flames caused by his leaking petrol), and the scenes in the snow are effective, though is mostly silly (Tintin makes his own propellers out of wood and survives being hit by a train) and is chiefly of historical interest.
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