Communist-era sculpture at Memento Park in Budapest, Hungary
I bought the gift store guidebook, so can write with authority that István Kiss finished this Workers' Movement Memorial in 1976, and that the cupped hands are protecting the fragile tenets of the workers' credo.
I tend to look for artistic merit, gaze past political intent. Any ideology has its propaganda, and usually has money to pay underemployed artists eager to work for a state-sponsored agency that won't bounce checks.
Kiss also may get the credit for the much more striking sculpture shown in the second shot in this Budapest set.