Tintin in the Land of the Soviets Tintin in the Land of the Soviets Tintin in the Land of the Soviets () is the first volume of "The Adventures of Tintin", the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. Commissioned by the conservative Belgian newspaper as anti-communist satire for its children's supplement , it was serialised weekly from January 1929 to May 1930 before being published in a collected volume by Éditions du Petit Vingtième in 1930. The story tells of young Belgian reporter Tintin and his dog Snowy, who are sent to the Soviet Union to report on the policies of Joseph Stalin's Bolshevik government. Tintin's intent
Tintin and the Golden Fleece pun on "carabine", the French for "rifle", a hint that the character may be an arms dealer, though his business is called "Karexport" ("car-export"). The crocodile that symbolises the company (but which is red and facing leftwards) is similar to the logo of Lacoste clothing. "Scoubidouvitch" comes from the term Scoubidou which was popular at the time. The film was made into a book, in French, English, Portuguese and Spanish. Unlike most of the Tintin books, including that of the animated film "Tintin and the Lake of Sharks", it is not in comic strip form, but is made up of