(have) no right to correspondence

(have) no right to correspondence
   to be dead Russian Communist usage. The dead cannot read:
    'No right to correspondence' — and that almost for certain means 'He's been shot'. (Solzhenitsyn, 1974, in translation)

How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms. . 2014.

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