Communism is not an atheist belief system. Communism is a political ideology. Communists believers have religious fanatical followers that truly believe in the Communist propaganda and Communist ideology. Religious groups who opposed Communism were eliminated by the Communist Party. Russian Bolshevik Communist followers included Christians and Jews.
Political opponents and non-believers in Communism regardless if they followed a religion were eliminated. Communism is a brutal regime that does not allow political opposition. No free sppeech, military police state(Stasi), everything is censored by the State and everyone must confirm and obey the State government.
The leader of the Communist Party: Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Pol Put, et al are regarded as an Earthly God who must be obeyed. Fanatical political ideologies such as Communism, National Socialism and Fascism have a religious/cuklt follower and are in a way a religious following imposed by the government.
