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I disagree with the statement that Russia is not evil.  To the best of my knowledge, Russia in still evil (metaphysically and theologically) because it has never (to the best of my knowledge) officially and nationally expressed remorse for the mass murders and martyrdoms it caused to both the hierarchy and the ordinary believers iof the Orthodox Church and its Faith,  and to the family (both immediate and extended) of the Czar.  To my mind, Lenin was demonically driven to exact from the Romnovs his vengeance for the judicial execution of his older brother:  I believe that his embrace of Marxism, from its beginning, was a practical connivance with which he could enlist the Party, and those who most benefitted (politically and economically) from the Revolution, to assist him in his unspoken desire to exact revence from the Romanov.  I do not suggest that the Czar should be entirely exonerated from his own political incompetence:  but what wrong had adolescent Alexei committed upon the Russian people that he, as well as his sisters (and even his dog) should be murdered by Bolshevik thugs?  And then the damage done to the properties and facilities of the Orthodox Church:  turning Cathedrals into public lavatories; seizing their bells and melting them down for the metal to be used for statues of Lenin placed on major streeet corners and sites of government administration; and the directed and deliberately blasphemous destruction wreaked, even, upon icons and communion vessels.  Whether we like to admit or not, no matter how much Marx, Engels, Lenin and Bolshevik philosophers express denial, there is a metaphysical (and, for Christians, a theological and eschatological) dimension to human existence---life---that Lenin and his cronies and thugs violated.  Even your own comment admits this, implicitly, by your assertion that "Russoa is not evil."  As long as no national remorse has been expressed, no penance performed; as long as that mummified stiff is on display in Red Square in that hideous structure known as "Lenin's Tomb"; as long as Russia, as a political entity, as raised up Orthodox chapels at the sites of the Romanox murders or body-disposal trenches . . . Russia's every action will be tainted with some degree of evil, tacitly present if not deliberately chosen and maintained.