Tsar Nicholas II wanted to spring a little surprise on the evangelical Christians. So he did. In 1905.
But he was a weak man who began to take back his concessions almost as soon as he made them. But if he hadn’t…
Perhaps the Marxist regime that took power in 1917 would never have emerged to crush the Russian people (not to mention the rest of the world) under a heavy boot of oppression for seventy years.