Data on the mortality of special settlers of deported nationalities as of October 1, 1948

The following is a table by me on deaths of special settlements among deported nationalities, as of 1 October 1948.

This information comes from a Soviet document dated 14 January 1949, entitled, "On the presence and movement of evacuees (as of October 1, 1948)". It can be found in: СТАЛИНСКИЕ ДЕПОРТАЦИИ. 1928–1953, Часть 3. ЭТНИЧЕСКИЕ ДЕПОРТАЦИИ ПЕРИОДА ВЕЛИКОЙ ОТЕЧЕСТВЕННОЙ ВОЙНЫ (22 июня 1941 — 9 мая 1945), Document No. 204. It can be found on Alexander Yakovlev's website here.

Data on mortality of Special Settlers

Deported Nationality	Amount deported and arrived later	Births	Deaths	Releases	In a special settlement as of 1 October 1948
Crimeans (Tatars and others)	227,457	6,564	44,887	3,531	185,603
Kalmyks	90,940	2,702	16,594	1,364	74,918
Chechens, Ingush, Karachays, and Balkars	578,527	28,120	146,892	7,018	452,737
Turks, Kurds, and Hemshils	94,669	2,873	15,432	2,175	80,935
Germans	1,070,021	25,792	45,275	37,784	1,012,754
Total	2,061,659	66,051	269,080	51,872	1,806,947

(Source: https://www.alexanderyakovlev.org/fond/issues-doc/1022615)

There are a couple of things that can be said about this data.

1. This supports the claims of mass death in special settlements, which have been denied by some. Grover Furr completely ignores all deaths in settlement in his interview (refuted by me here) where he focuses only on the transit numbers. 

2. Notice how, for all of the ethnicities, there were far more deaths than births, and a general population decrease. This is interesting, because Furr claimed in the same interview above:

In the case of the Chechen-Ingush and the Crimean Tatars, collaboration with the Nazis was massive, involving most of the population. To try to isolate and punish “only the guilty” would have been to split the nation up. This would probably have destroyed the nation and there would have been very few young men for the young women to marry. Instead, the national group was kept together, and their population grew.

This data clearly disproves this assertion. This is coming from Soviet records, and according to the data, there were 6,564 births among the Crimean Tatars compared to 44,887 deaths; a rougly 1 to 7 ratio of births vs deaths (from rounding 6.83 up). We don't have figures, at least in this document, for the Chechens and Ingush solely, but among the Chechens, Ingush, Karachays, and Balkars, according to the data, there were 28,120 births compared to 146,892 deaths; a roughly 1 to 5 ratio of births vs deaths (from rounding 5.22 down).