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Another theme in the book is Communism. Since her early teenage years, Kahlo has identified herself as a Communist. She believes that white people from capitalist places like the United States and Europe have engaged in a systematic enslavement and oppression of minorities like Mexicans, Asians, and blacks. Communism, to Kahlo's mind, offers an opportunity for true equality in the world and an opportunity for the working people of oppressed and impoverished countries to rise up and take the wealth and resources that are rightfully theirs. She holds as her heroes such figures as Marx, Engels, Lenin, Mao, and Stalin. Many pages in the diary are filled with this names, or such phrases as "Viva Stalin" or "Long Live Stalin."