Actually that wasn't an unexpected gift at all and the Pope did appreciate.
The hammer and sickle crucifix was donated to the Pope by President Morales as a copy of the original one that was constructed by Jesuit priest Luís Espinal Camps, priest, journalist, filmmaker, Professor, human rights activist and Marxist.
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He was a missionary in Bolivia and was killed in 1980, after a fascist "death squad" kidnapped him and brutally tortured him.
The Pope visited the site where he was killed and had words of great appreciation for him.
Here is the original hammer and sickle crucifix.
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