How do you go from state enforced atheism to religous-heavy society

>>1967875
Communism is basically a religion so it wasn't too far of a leap.

>>1967875

It's really not that big of a leap.

>>1967875
>state enforced atheism
There's your answer.

The people were still religious the whole time.

They just paid lip service to that

>state enforced atheism

bullshit.

>>1967875
That would be much harder to pull off in moderate-secular countries. People are more likely to jump between extremes especially since communism was shit.

Russia isn't religion heavy, they are trying to bring it back in attempt to heal Russia's alcoholism, drugs problem and broken families.

>>1967875
Orthodoxy was kind of mixed in the soviet union. They wanted to eradicate it but when they tried the commoners started to get rebellious. Eventually it just became an ignore and hope it goes away kind of deal.

>>1967875
Compensation. Communism and atheism were the most important things in life, and when they disappeared, they had to be replaced something else. Missing out so much in peoples' lives, religion fought twice as hard to recapture their flock.
The cultural war showed that communism is the loser. And communism promoted atheism, therefore, atheism is in the wrong as well.
Also, the nationalism that can be found in communist propaganda continued after the regime changed, but with religion as a proof of the nation's glory and victory over the decadent West

>>1967920
you describe Finland

>>1967875
>How do you go from state enforced atheism

State enforced atheism doesn't mean nobody is religious.

It's not like just because the state makes something illegal, it stops existing.

>>1967875
Christianity thrives under persecution, and once the persecution is gone, it booms with its newfound freedom

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>>1967875
>How do you go from Centuries of Imperial Rule backed by a state church to state enforced atheism for 70 years to a religious heavy society?