The Bolsheviks didn’t believe in God and didn’t love Russia, yet at a dramatic turning point, it was they who ended up saving it. When all those who believed and loved went bankrupt.
The tasks the Bolsheviks had to solve proved too tough for the statesmen of Tsarist Russia, and too difficult for experienced officials and managers.
Meanwhile, they received an inheritance that no sane, solid-minded person would dare to take on. For that tangle of problems that was post-revolutionary Russia, you can hardly find even a proper name… The mechanisms launched in February 1917 lasted long after the government that had started them. Anyone who understood economics and public administration understood that Russia was doomed…
Many will want to argue about this, but the facts are that it was Lenin and Stalin who saved Russia.