Tintin in the Land of the Soviets

Tintin, a reporter for Le Petit Vingtieme, and his dog Snowy are sent on an assignment to the Soviet Union. Departing from Brussels, his train is blown up en route to Moscow by an agent of the Soviet secret police, the OGPU. Tintin survives and is blamed by the authorities in Berlin for the "accident". He is put in jail and even taken to a torture chamber, but escapes (here and in later imprisonments, which are common) by deceit and disguise. He then steals a car and goes through several adventures before eventually reaching Moscow. This is the only early Tintin album which wasn't redrawn into modern style, because Hergé himself thought that this album is immature. But redrawn draft of the first page of this book was found. Many Tintinologists doubt that the draft was drawn by Herge. It was likely drawn by either Bob de Moor or Yves Rodier.