Soviets) is the first volume of The Adventures of Tintin (Les Aventures
de Tintin), the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. Commissioned
by the conservative Belgian newspaper Le XXe Siècle as anti-communist
propaganda for its children's supplement Le Petit Vingtième, it was
serialised weekly from January 1929 to May 1930. The story tells of
young Belgian reporter Tintin and his dog Snowy (Milou), who are sent to
the Soviet Union to report on the policies of Joseph Stalin's Bolshevik
government. Tintin's intent to expose the regime's secrets prompts
agents from the Soviet secret police, the OGPU, to hunt him down.
Bolstered by publicity stunts including the April Fools' Day publication
of a faked OGPU letter confirming Tintin's existence, Land of the
Soviets was a commercial success, and appeared in book form shortly
after its conclusion. Hergé continued The Adventures of Tintin with
Tintin in the Congo (Tintin au Congo), and the series became a defining
part of the Franco-Belgian comics tradition. He later came to regret the
poorly researched, propagandist debut story, and prevented its
republication until 1973.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintin_in_the_Land_of_the_Soviets>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
70:
First Jewish–Roman War: The Roman army, led by the future
Emperor Titus, conquered the city of Jerusalem and destroyed the Second
Temple (model pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Temple>
1327:
First War of Scottish Independence: James Douglas led a raid
into Weardale and almost killed Edward III of England.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stanhope_Park>
1783:
A cataclysmic eruption of Mount Asama, the most active volcano
in Japan, killed roughly 1,400 people and exacerbated a famine,
resulting in another 20,000 deaths.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Asama>
1983:
A coup d'état organised by Blaise Compaoré and supported by
Libya made Thomas Sankara President of the Republic of Upper Volta (now
Burkina Faso).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sankara>
2006:
Sri Lankan Civil War: Seventeen employees of the French INGO
ACF International were massacred in Muttur.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Trincomalee_massacre_of_NGO_workers>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
yarl:
A deep, guttural vocal style with affected pronunciation, characteristic
of male grunge and postgrunge singers of the 1990s and early 2000s.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/yarl>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love,
And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
--Percy Bysshe Shelley
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley>
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