Yes. Frida Kahlo joined the Mexican Communist Party in 1928, and she called herself a communist until she died in 1954.
She sheltered Stalin's greatest enemy, then came to admire Stalin himself, and her coffin was draped in the party's flag.
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The party card is where the neat answer breaks. In 1929 she resigned from the party. She stayed out until 1948. For nearly two decades, the woman whose coffin would carry the hammer and sickle was not a member.
Frida tied her life to the Revolution early. She told people she was born in 1910, the year the Mexican Revolution began. She was born in 1907. A party card was never the only way she belonged to the cause.
Her loyalty ran through people more than through the party. In November 1937 she dedicated a self-portrait to Trotsky, Stalin's most famous enemy. Within two years she had broken with him. I think the card is the least interesting evidence she left.
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