Lack of consensus among demographers on the number of casualties in this matter
In addition, many of the reports were issued after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, which made it easier to use Soviet administrative documents, but also led to the possibility that the authors would not be corrected if they wished to smear the Soviet Union.
Do you have any statistics, how many % died during the deportation? If I understand correctly, you say less than 50%.
Yes, that was kinda my point.
Crimean activists believe that 46 percent of the population died, and the KGB countered this by declaring that only 22 percent of Crimeans died.
https://www.hrw.org/reports/pdfs/u/ussr/ussr.919/usssr919full.pdf
Lack of consensus among demographers on the number of casualties in this matter
In addition, many of the reports were issued after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, which made it easier to use Soviet administrative documents, but also led to the possibility that the authors would not be corrected if they wished to smear the Soviet Union.