The USSR wasn't "set up" as a religion-less state. They took a very large population that was Russian Orthodox and told them that their religion was illegal.

And ca$h - what do you do when your parents tell you not to do something? You go right out there and do it.

IMO it'd be easier to teach a cow to tap dance than to get a single religious person to 'convert' to atheism.

Get your facts straight before you start on a rant. And I have to ask - you have never before seemed even remotely religious - what gives? You got some girl that sings in the choir or something?