Ideally, you're right

But atheists are like anyone else. Some use their ideology to force compliance from others while others never make any deal about it at all.

I've known atheists who never said boo about their belief until asked. To them, it was a non-issue; they just didn't believe in a God and kept it to themselves.

What would you call the motivation in Russia, to eradicate all religious belief, observance and churches? Would that be driven by an atheistic ideology or is there something in a Communist manifesto which states somewhere that religious belief must be stamped out?

-Vince