No, guys, at least read about the essence of atheism in Soviet Russia. Atheism is not just disbelief in God. That would be too simplistic. Soviet ideologists understood this well. There, atheism was the starting point for a NEW RELIGION. The religion of communism – that is, paradise on earth, not in heaven. If you tell a people with strong traditions of faith in God that there is no God, but offer nothing in return, they simply won't accept it. Every thesis is countered by an antithesis. Dialectics. Lenin understood this very well. Therefore, a new FAITH was offered to the people.
And then... what is atheism – in translation, godlessness. That is, a person BELIEVES that there is no God, just as another person BELIEVES that there is. And both are faith in principle, because no one can say for sure whether God exists or not (because no one has seen him). Therefore, just as faith in God is a DENIAL of disbelief in God, so is the opposite. These are self-evident phenomena that accompany any faith, and, in essence, one can say that people believe in "denial," dear Apple:)