Mushroom roots of the Russian revolution Probably few people know that the leader of the Russian revolution and the chief ideologist of communism V.I. Lenin was a mushroom. For a long time he ate mushrooms, which gradually replaced his personality: http://video.yandex.ru/users/homocognitivus/view/227/#. In the nature of such phenomena are often (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiocordyceps_unilateralis).