We know that vodka is a serious drink for a serious connoisseur. Here are a few vodka facts that will put a smile on your face.

We promise not to quiz you at the end - just have a shot of SLAVI! Lenin was absolutely indifferent to alcohol. In fact he could not handle any strong drinks.

He was an advocate of prohibition and dry laws which were enforced in 1914. He always said that Russia would drown in the vodka Revolution. He was shocked to see soldiers enjoying vodka at a local distillery. His vision was a vodka free world. We know he was wrong!

But his successor Joseph Stalin said goodbye to the dry law. He enjoyed drinking vodka on a daily basis. It's more like a legend, but they say, Stalin's father used to give his baby-son a cloth soaked with vodka instead of a pacifier. It was Stalin's idea to give soldiers 100 grams of vodka from the Commissar during the war. Rivers of vodka flew to the front. Vodka saved a lot of lives, helping to relieve war stress, dull the dread of death and stay alive after frostbite. Victory to Vodka!

In 1959 Nikita Khrushchev signed an agreement with Nixon to build the first Russian vodka distillery in the USA.

Leonid Brezhnev ordered the production of a special vodka thoughout the country. This new thing was just great, but from a marketing standpoint, his campaign totally failed.

On May 16, 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev started an anti-alcohol campaign, prices on vodka, wine and beer were raised to an unreasonable degree. Scenes of alcohol consumption were cut out from movies and many famous wineries were simply destroyed.

Don't try this at home, but Vodka yoga is becoming really popular. How does it work? Have a shot of vodka and find balance with nature in the deep forests of Russia. Some even walk on ashes immediately after consuming a shot of vodka! No wonder it's known as the beverage with magical powers!