Although the female nudes have received some more attention from art historians, male nudes have also occupied a very important place in art since antiquity. Although the preferred types of male nudes change from century to century, the strong man, the typology of the Atlant, who carries all the weight of the world on his shoulders, appears recurrently in every era.

Unlike the communist iconography of the interwar period, in which the workers appeared as tormented, oppressed and powerless beings, Kaba's work, made in 1946 - in the transition phase from communism as a revolutionary ideology of the opposition, to communism as a regime of power - begins to portray heroes and not just victims.

In addition to the athletic and powerful bodies of the working heroes, the virtue that is often captured in communist art is cooperation, action in accordance with the masses. Unlike the classic Atlant, Kaba also captures how a less athletic worker helps another one by putting his weight on his own back.