The Marxist approach was to stamp out religion and even there Stalin had to back off a bit to unify his nation to fight the Nazis in WW2.
Communists still allowed ‘show’ churches in their societies under government supervision.
In “Mein Kampf” Hitler expressed his disdain for religion, but admitted it couldn’t be stamped out. The Nazis developed a “Reichs Church” to make religion subservient to the state.
The elitists of today want individuals who won’t change their beliefs suppressed but I also think they want to allow churches that conform to their standards of liberality about sexuality (gay marriage etc.) and other beliefs.
Former British PM Tony Blair, who launched the move to legalize gay marriage in his country, professed to be a Catholic and devoted his life to matters of ‘faith’ when he left office getting religion to conform to ‘climate change’ ideology and so on.
In this period, Pope Benedict resigned and we got Pope Francis as a replacement. I have no final answers on that, just a questioning mind.
The Nazis had a saying, "First the Saturday People, then the Sunday People."
I suppose Russia did a better job of placating the faithful ones. And yes, I’m aware Hitler adopted “religiosity” as a means to enlist the unwilling.
Don’t care much for Francis.