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Comments about '''Hergé and ideology'''.

[[Hergé]] started making the comic strip series [[Tintin]] in 1929 for the children's section of the [[Belgium|Belgian]] newspaper ''[[Le Vingtième Siècle]]'', run by the [[Abbé Wallez]], a supporter of social Catholicism, a right-wing movement. He continued on other media until his death in 1983. 

As a young artist Hergé was influenced by his mentors, specifically the [[Abbé Wallez]] and [[Rexism]]. This shows in his most important works, the Tintin series. As the artist develops ideologically, so does the series.

== First albums ==

Tintin's first album, ''Tintin in the Land of the Soviets'', was an anti-[[Soviet Union|Soviet]] propaganda of limited outlook. Hergé could not choose the subject of his album, which was decided by the Abbé Wallez, and could not travel to USSR to make his own opinion. His only source was ''Moscou sans voiles'' ("Moscow without veils"), a book written in 1928 by Joseph Douillet, former consul of Belgium in the [[USSR]]. In this book, Joseph Douillet denounced the communist system : poverty, famine and terror. The secret police maintains order and the propaganda deceives the foreigners.<br>⏎
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Despite the fact that the only aim of the album was to warn the young readers against [[communism]] (the [[october revolution]] had taken place only ten years before!), the denunciation of [[totalitarianism]] will stay a recurrent theme in Tintin's albums.

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== Sexism ==

Hergé has also been accused of sexism, due to the almost complete lack of female characters in his books. Indeed, most women in Tintin's adventures are secondary characters, usually caretakers. Moreover, these women don't present a flattering image of women: for instance, General Alcazar's wife is an awful shrew.  The only woman character of importance in a world of men is Bianca Castafiore.

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