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Ecuador nominates Lenin for Nobel Prize
Saturday February 04, 2012 06:09:41 PM,
RIA
Novosti
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Buenos Aires: A namesake of Vladimir Lenin, the late Russian communist
politician who led the October Revolution of 1917, was nominated
for the Nobel Peace Prize by an Ecuadorian legislator.
The 58-year-old Lenin Moreno, vice president of Ecuador, received
the honour for the activities of his charity for the disabled,
Manuela Espejo. Moreno himself was shot in the back by a robber in
1997 and is confined to a wheelchair.
The deadline for submitting nominations for the 2012 Nobel Prizes
was Feb 2. It remained unclear whether Moreno made it in time for
the award, which saw more than 200 nominees vying for it last
year.
Vladimir Lenin was proposed for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1918 over
pulling Russia out of World War I, but his nomination missed the
deadline.
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