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The ideology of Tintin
Comments about '''Hergé and ideology'''.

[[Herge|Hergé]] started making the comic strip series [[Tintin]] in 1929 for the children's section of the [[Belgium|Belgian]] newspaper [[Le Vingtieme Siecle]], aligned with the [[Rexism|Rexist]] right-wing movement. He continued on other media until his death in 1983. 

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Things began to change with ''[[The Blue Lotus]]'' (his encouter with Tchang may have changed his mind): his vision of China is more subtle and the album can be read as anti-[[imperialism|imperialist]]. ''(Some more about the political row this album caused)''

=== The Second World War ===

Things got more complicated later. ''King Ottokar's Sceptre'' was obviously anti-[[nazi]]
 : Musstler (MUSSolini-hiTLER) the dictator of [[Borduria]] tried to oust king of [[Syldavia]] Muskar XII. The Situation was very similar that of [[Anschluss]] in [[Austria]] in 1938. But some albums were more controversial. The early and unfinished version of ''Land of Black Gold'' is generally considered as pro-[[Arab]], anti-[[Zionist]] and anti-[[Britain|British]].

A very controversial book is ''The Shooting Star'' which is about a race between two crews who are trying to reach a [[meteorite]] landed in the [[arctic]] seas. This race can be interpreted as a competition between [[Europe|Europeans]] ([[Germany|German]] occupied at that time) and Anglo-Americans (t. The financial backer of the Anglo-Americans has a [[Judaism|Jewish]] name, although this has been changed in some editions, and Tintin flies a German plane (an Arado 196), at least in first editions. Others say the ideology is not obvious and maybe it was done to fool [[censorship]] but it can be discussed.

Generally it is accepted that Hergé during the nazi-German occupation of Belgium tried to avoid writing controversial Tintin stories. The ones written in that period, ''The Shooting Star'', ''The Secret of the Unicorn'', and ''Red Rackham's Treasure'', are all stories in which the protagonists leave the known, political world in se(contracted; show full)
*''The Red Sea Sharks'' is of course a statement against the modern day [[slave trade]], although it is not clear if it is ideological in nature.