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I think General Alkazaar is similar to a person. Can you tell me about your ideas? Well, I'm confused. Then, if you are interested, you can reply.
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Please provide a brief description about whom you're thinking Alkazaar is similar to.
Once again, Thank You.

Joe Dalton ?

Some friends of mine think Fidel Castro. Personally, I don't.

Well, he does also look like the chap who played the lead in "the Outlaw". Don't you think so ?

Indeed, he bears a striking resemblance.
;-)

But if it was really the part of Castro, then what about Herge? He was definitely an anti-communist and Kurvi-Tash(Plesky Gladz), the Bordurian Villain Marshall resembles Stalin. So, who does Alcazar resemble?

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But if it was really the part of Castro, then what about Herge? He was definitely an anti-communist and Kurvi-Tash(Plesky Gladz), the Bordurian Villain Marshall resembles Stalin. So, who does Alcazar resemble?

Herge seems to have deliberately mixed up aspects of right-wing and left-wing politics in Tintin and the Picaros. Alcazar and his men do do rather resemble Castro and Che Guevara and their guerilla revolutionaries in their appearance, yet I think Tintin mentions that they're backed by what sounds like a US corporation. Conversely, Tapioca's regime, from the soldiers' uniforms, looks like a typical right-wing Fascist junta, yet the Kurvi Tasch (Plesky Gladz) regime that backs Tapioca is clearly Communist, with the aircraft and vehicles it supplies being mostly of Soviet Russian makes.

I think Hergé was deliberately mixing up totalitarian regimes of the extreme left and right, partly because he quite rightly saw little difference between the two, and maybe partly because he felt it politically safer to satirize both simultaneously, rather than repeat the direct anti-Communism of Tintin in the Land of the Soviets, which was held against him after the war by powerful left-wingers. He does the same thing in The Calculus Affair when the clearly communist Kurvi Tasch (Plesky Gladz) regime in Borduria is given Nazi-style red-with-white-circle armbands.

So if you find yourself confused as to why Alcazar in Picaros seems to be designed to remind some readers of Castro, yet seems to have anti-Soviet politics, my view is that it's probably because Hergé intended some confusion. I hope that's answering the question you were getting at!

Well, Herge was a Anti-Nazi to assemble Musstler(Mussolini+Hitler). He was arrested by Nazis. But, I think he liked Latin-American Communism. He did not like the Communism of Soviets. I agree. Because, Tintin resembles Che Guevara in Picaros.