State atheism was good actually. The orthodox church didn't stop with their anticommunism before their marginalisation, during their marginalisation or after they were invited back. No amount of grace extended to the Orthodox or Catholic churches by communist movement has been received in good faith or with gratitude or had ever stopped them from trying to quell communism.

Lenin said that the church is nothing but an instrument of bourgeois reaction, and the church has spent a century proving him right.