Pippi and the Moomins served as a social antidote to fascism - Aeon Essays

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Pippi and the Moomins served as a social antidote to fascism - Aeon Essays

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Both authors started writing right after and as a result of WW2.

As terrifying as all this is, we encounter it in a childlike world where, however bad things get, mother is able to make them right. ‘If only we can get home to mamma before it comes, nothing can happen,’ Moomintroll says anxiously when he learns the time that the comet will hit. ‘She will know what to do.’