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TIL that in an alternate DC Universe, Superman’s rocket ship lands on a Ukrainian collective farm rather than in Kansas. He is “the Champion of the common worker who fights a never-ending battle for Stalin, socialism, and the international expansion of the Warsaw Pact.”

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