英语词汇he is not being executed he is being shot的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	he is not being executed he is being shot
词源	he is not being executed, he is being shot. The death penalty had been abolished in Soviet Russia when Admiral Aleksie Sh- chastny was sentenced to be shot. Spectators in the court that day in 1918 began to stir when the state prosecutor explained: “What are you worrying about? Executions have been abol- ished. But he is not being executed; he is being shot.” This most extreme of euphemisms is recorded in Aleksandr I. Solzhenit- syn’s Gulag Archipelago (1974).
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