Complex sentence: 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).
Split into simpler sentences: 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).