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(Yeah yeah, spoiler alert)

Before now I didn’t know the fictional country of “Boravia” was first made up and depicted in 1930s comic books by the creators of Superman, Siegel and Schuster, two Jewish teenagers from Cleveland and Toronto. When I saw the new Superman movie last week, I understood Boravia as a generic post-Soviet failstate with a comically evil leader, a character whom audiences fed on American propaganda could read as anyone from........

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