All the accounts agree, even on the smallest details, and the deportees who have been able to write to their families tell the same story as those who, being henceforth useless, have been sent home to die.
It had been a rocket-maintenance hangar once, then had been turned into temporary dwelling for the first deportees, when Earth began flooding Mars.
In practice, the evacuee existed somewhere between the two, neither refugee nor deportee, but bearing elements of each.
Perhaps the deportees previously received ordinary bread rations that went bad during the journey, whereas hardtack was supposed to keep well.
Unlike the terms evacuee and deportee, the term refugee (bezhenets) was not a formal, administrative category during the war.
He declared an amnesty for the internees and deportees.
While most of the arrested persons were adult males, the majority of deportees were women and children.
Thus did the evacuee draw ever closer to the deportee.
