without baggage

without baggage
   obsolete to execution
   One of the coded phrases used by the Russians under Communism for prisoners taken out of jail to be killed. Also as without the right to correspondence, which at least acknowledged that dead people can't read:
    From time to time someone would depart from the camp 'without baggage'. Those were sinister words — we all knew what they meant. (Horrocks, 1960 — he was imprisoned in Moscow in 1920 after serving with the White Russian forces)
    A doctor who complained that his sister had died of hunger was sentenced to ten years 'without the right of correspondence', the euphemism for a death sentence. (Moynahan, 1994)

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

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