Worth checking out the history of this 1970s statue.. the Russian words simply read "F. Engels". It was rescued (by artist Phil Collins in 2017.. no, not THAT Phil Collins) from eastern Ukraine from a time when all statues of communist 'heroes' were taken down when the USSR was disbanded (1991). You can see the repair seam as the statue was in two halves when found under a tarpaulin at a farm in the back-water village . German Fredreich Engels lived in Salford, son of a mill owner, for a period and was so appalled by the worker's poverty and conditions wrote a paper (that had little effect at the time, but came a classic historical exposition of the working conditions of the period). Engels also buddied-up with Karl Marx, part writing the classic "Communist Manifesto" (1848) inspired, no doubt, by his two years (1842-1844) of experience in the industrial powerhouses of Manchester and Salford in the North of England.