This is Vladimir Ilyitch Lenin, in his now-permanent Hungarian home of Memento Park outside Budapest. You may have heard of him. He's the Lenin who, when he said, "imagine no possessions," was actually in a position to make sure that the people of Russia indeed had no possessions. Unless they were part of the Communist Party ruling elite.
This pose is affectionately (or sarcastically) (same thing) known as Lenin's "hailing a cab" pose. I know. How 20th Century! Nowadays, Lenin would call for an Uber on his phone. Oh wait, he wouldn't have had a phone, having imagined the whole "no possessions" thing and bringing it forth into reality.
Visited May 2010. Over-analyzed in June 2020.
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