Zyldav Zentral Revolutzionär Komitzät
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In the Belgian
Franco-Belgian comics
Franco-Belgian comics are comics that are created in Belgium and France. These countries have a long tradition in comics and comic books, where they are known as BDs, an abbreviation of bande dessinée in French and stripverhalen in Dutch...

 comic book series
Comics
Comics denotes a hybrid medium having verbal side of its vocabulary tightly tied to its visual side in order to convey narrative or information only, the latter in case of non-fiction comics, seeking synergy by using both visual and verbal side in...

 The Adventures of Tintin
The Adventures of Tintin
The Adventures of Tintin is a series of classic comic books created by Belgian artist , who wrote under the pen name of Hergé...

by Hergé
Hergé
Georges Prosper Remi , better known by the pen name Hergé, was a Belgian comics writer and artist. His best known and most substantial work is the 23 completed comic books in The Adventures of Tintin series, which he wrote and illustrated from 1929 until his death in 1983, although he was also...

, the Zyldav Zentral Revolutzionär Komitzät (Syldavian Revolutionary Central Committee), ZZRK, was an organization with the goal of removing the Syldavian monarchy and unify with its neighbor Borduria
Borduria
Borduria is a fictional country in the comic strip series The Adventures of Tintin by Hergé. It is located in the Balkans and has a rivalry with the fictional neighbouring country of Syldavia. Borduria is depicted in King Ottokar's Sceptre and The Calculus Affair, and is referred to in Tintin and...

. It worked as an under category of the Bordurian Iron Guard, both ruled by a fascist named Müsstler (the name is a comparison of Mussolini
Benito Mussolini
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and Hitler
Adolf Hitler
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). They infiltrated large parts of the Syldavian administrations, including aircraft pilots, gendarms, the Royal Guard, his adjutant and personnel in the state prison in Klow.

It's not entirely clear, whether the organization writes its name in Syldavian
Syldavian
Syldavian is a fictional West Germanic language created by Hergé as the national language of Syldavia, a small fictional Balkan kingdom that serves as a major setting in some Tintin stories. Hergé modeled the language on Marols, a dialect of Dutch spoken in and around Brussels...

 or Bordurian
Bordurian
Bordurian is a fictional language, the national language of Borduria, a fictional Balkan dictatorship created by Hergé for the Tintin comics series. Little is known about Bordurian, as it is not extensively presented in the Tintin stories...

.

The organization's headquarters was in Klow, which had the telephone number 3324, and a man named Trovik was the voice of the organization. The members used the Bordurian phrase Amaïh, with the same meaning as the Nazi
Nazi Germany
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 Heil Hitler phrase.

They appear in the eighth book in the series, King Ottokar's Sceptre
King Ottokar's Sceptre
King Ottokar's Sceptre is the eighth of The Adventures of Tintin, a series of classic comic-strip albums, written and illustrated by Belgian writer and illustrator Hergé, featuring the young reporter Tintin. It was first serialized as a black-and-white comic strip in Le Petit Vingtième on 4 August...

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