Despite his mother's pleas to give their firstborn child a Christian first name, José called him Ilich, after V.I. Lenin, and two younger siblings were named "Lenin" (born 1951) and "Vladimir" (born 1958).
Despite his mother's pleas to give their firstborn child a Christian first name, José called him Ilich, after V.I. Lenin. Two younger siblings were named "Lenin" (born 1951) and "Vladimir" (born 1958).