[A. Pole]

In a different form, we are witnessing a resurgence of the same disease that devastated Soviet Union.

This disease lasts about 70 years, the recovery is slow and painful (if the patient survives).

[MirrorField]

In a different form, we are witnessing a resurgence of the same disease that devastated Soviet Union.

No. In USSR the disease was Communism, a non-functional political and economical system. Atheism was a single, non-essential only semi-related feature of that system.

To blame atheism for ravages of communism is equivalent of blaming fitness enthusiasm for ravages of National Socialism. Pure guilt by association.