(December 15, 2018 at 10:26 pm)Amarok Wrote:Quote: Historically? The Soviet Union, Cambodia, Cuba, China, Albania, Vietnam, N. Korea, etc...Nope Atheism was never forced in those countries
When the Germans attacked the USSR in 1941 Stalin ordered the churches reopened and the religious icons returned to them. Church attendance returned to Tsarist levels quickly. Much the same thing happened after the Soviets collapsed.