Superman: Red Son is a three-issue prestige format comic book
mini-series published by DC Comics that was released under their
Elseworlds imprint in April 2003. Author Mark Millar created the comic
with the premise "what if Superman had been raised in the Soviet
Union?" It received critical acclaim and was nominated for the 2004
Eisner Award for best limited series.The story mixes alternate
versions of DC super-heroes with alternate-reality versions of real
political figures such as Joseph Stalin and John F. Kennedy. The
series spans approximately 1953-2001 save for a futuristic epilogue.In
Red Son Supermans rocket ship lands on a Ukrainian collective farm
rather than in Kansas an implied reason being a small time difference
(a handful of hours) from the original timeline meaning Earths
rotation placed the Ukraine in the ships path instead of Kansas.
Instead of fighting for "...truth justice and the American Way"
Superman is described in Soviet radio broadcasts "...as the Champion
of the common worker who fights a never-ending battle for Stalin
socialism and the international expansion of the Warsaw Pact." His
"secret identity" (i.e. the name his adoptive parents gave him)
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