pot+of+white+paint

Irony...

"The Bolshevik government, which by now had moved to Moscow, took desperate measures to protect itself. First it introduced conscription. This means that men aged eighteen to forty had to serve in a new Bolshevik army - The Red Army." (p. 28)

"Against the Red Army, or 'Reds' as they were known, was a great variety of enemies known as 'Whites'." "The White Armies included anyone who opposed the Bolsheviks." (p.29)

The text was interesting how the author specified it as "pot of white paint" rather than just "pot of paint". This caught my mind and reminded me of the Bolsheviks and the opposers. In the book, it says that the Bolsheviks represented themselves by creating an army called "The Red Army". The other side that disagreed with the Bolsheviks were the "Whites". However, Stalin comes from the Bolsheviks and was mainly formed with Bolshevik's ideas. It would be obvious that he should be supporting the color, red, since the color, red, represents the Bolsheviks. The commandments are a very important document that the government keeps, and why would Napoleon use white in which is the enemies' color?

To understand this, I realized that Napoleon (Stalin) had overthrown the "Bolsheviks" in some kind of way. The idea of the "Bolsheviks" was already over to Napoleon (Stalin); he became his own, and created his own party. And now, he would not distinguish the colors between red and white since he is so powerful and that he does not have any sides to support. So, no matter what color he uses, it would not matter.

Even though it may have seen ironic in the beginning, I was able to realize that he had no party to support.

Hyun Sun Park