Amazon actually sells the fake Nazi banner of "Borduria"...
Borduria is a fictitious nation from “The Adventures
of Tintin”. Tintin's cretor Hergé introduced it in the 1939 adventure “King
Ottokar's Sceptre”, where the evil Bordurians attempt to undermine peaceful
Syldavia, another fictitious nation. Borduria is clearly based on Nazi Germany,
while Syldavia with its psedo-Slav language and kings named Ottokar is a stand
in for Czechoslovakia, smashed by the Nazis in 1938-39.
Syldavia also symbolizes Hergé's native Belgium, occupied by Germany during World War I and therefore under threat in 1939, too. Belgium was indeed occupied by the Third Reich during World War II, with Hergé notoriously adapting to the Nazi administration, even to the point of making pro-Nazi and anti-Semitic Tintin adventures! After the war, Hergé transitioned to anti-Soviet Cold Warrior, so in later Tintin adventures Borduria became more similar to an Eastern bloc country, while still retaining some Nazi traits.
The flag depicted here comes from the 1956 Tintin adventure “The Calculus Affair”. The design is obviously Nazi-inspired, and the moustache of the dictator Kûrvi-Tasch (Plekszy-Gladz in the French original) was originally a pun on Hitler, but can just as easily be applied to Mister Moustache himself, Marshal Stalin.
Frankly, although this is a jocular banner, it's resemblance to the original flag of National Socialist Germany is just too great, so I wouldn't use this if I were you, at least not outside an Aryan Nation compound whose Führer have an uncanny sense of hilarity…
Syldavia also symbolizes Hergé's native Belgium, occupied by Germany during World War I and therefore under threat in 1939, too. Belgium was indeed occupied by the Third Reich during World War II, with Hergé notoriously adapting to the Nazi administration, even to the point of making pro-Nazi and anti-Semitic Tintin adventures! After the war, Hergé transitioned to anti-Soviet Cold Warrior, so in later Tintin adventures Borduria became more similar to an Eastern bloc country, while still retaining some Nazi traits.
The flag depicted here comes from the 1956 Tintin adventure “The Calculus Affair”. The design is obviously Nazi-inspired, and the moustache of the dictator Kûrvi-Tasch (Plekszy-Gladz in the French original) was originally a pun on Hitler, but can just as easily be applied to Mister Moustache himself, Marshal Stalin.
Frankly, although this is a jocular banner, it's resemblance to the original flag of National Socialist Germany is just too great, so I wouldn't use this if I were you, at least not outside an Aryan Nation compound whose Führer have an uncanny sense of hilarity…
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