Claim: The Eastern Orthodoxy takes 83.3% of the total Balarusian population in the 2017 religion census, which significantly undermines the Roman Catholic religion, which has about 6.7% only; however, due to atheism's effects in the Soviet era, most of them are not religious.
Evidence: Eastern Orthodoxy 83.3 Religious denominations in Belarus, 2017 Roman Catholicism 6.7 The legacy of the state atheism of the Soviet era is evident in the fact that a large part of the Belarusians are not religious.