All this already happend in former USSR, people still remember the "better" soviet time before Gorbachev, even religious ones. It might repeat in EUSSR when it would fall due to it's own gigantic weight, remembering the great union.
Though I wouldn't forget, nor forgive the romanian orthodox church for being the money launder of the public fonds. (there are english subtitles). And I don't even talk about russian one...