Papa Smurf as Stalin? New Book Paints Smurfs as 'Totalitarian Utopia'

To their fans, the little blue comic book characters epitomize an ideal pint-sized world. But French academic Antoine Buéno says The Smurfs' supposed utopia, created by Belgian illustrator Peyo in 1958, represents the worst possible prejudices, even comparing their society to Stalinism and Nazism.