This is a more useful breakdown of the losses – by cause:
Table 1 – Total Soviet Losses
Calculated loss in excess of expected deaths (Andreev, Darskii, Kharkova) 26,600,000
War-related deaths of people expected to die in the timeframe of other causes (Harrison) 1,100,000
Expected deaths due to Soviet repression 300,000
Total deficit of the Soviet population in the war 28,000,000Table 2 – Soviet Losses by Cause
Demographic loss of the Soviet Union in the Soviet-German War 28,000,000
Of that losses in migration deficit (Ellman, Maksudov) 2,700,000
Total Soviet war dead 25,300,000
Of that losses due to Soviet state repression 1,500,000
Total Losses due to war and occupation 23,800,000
Table 3 – Losses due to Soviet State Repression
Deaths in prisons, camps and colonies of the gulag 1,000,000
Deaths in deportations, internal exile and the labor army 300,000
Executions by civil authorities 65,000
Executions by military tribunals 135,000
Total deaths due to Soviet state repression 1,500,000
Table 4 – Losses due to War and Occupation
Red Army and NKVD losses due to combat, accidents and disease 7,250,000
Soviet partisan deaths 150,000
Opolchenie militia deaths 100,000
Soviet citizens killed fighting in non-Soviet formations 250,000
Deaths of Soviet prisoners of war in German captivity 3,100,000
Deaths of Soviet prisoners of war in Finnish captivity 20,000
Deaths of Soviet forced laborers in German-run Europe and children born to them 200,000
Jewish citizens of the Soviet Union murdered in the Holocaust 2,550,000
Civilian deaths in the Siege of Leningrad 900,000
Non-Jewish Civilians killed in German anti-partisan reprisals in the countryside 650,000
Non-combatants killed in the Polish-Ukrainian conflict in Galicia and Volhynia 50,000
Killed in reprisals by the Soviet partisans 60,000
Civilians killed in all other German killing policies and repression 200,000-400,000
Civilian deaths in the German aerial bombing of Soviet cities and towns 100,000-200,000
Civilian deaths due to battle munitions in, and in the aftermath, of battles 200,000-400,000
Civilian deaths due to general privation due to invasion and occupation 7,500,000-8,000,000
Total deaths due to occupation and war 23,800,000
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