Meanings (ES + gloss)
refusenik • refyuznik
One of the citizens of the former Soviet Union who was refused permission to emigrate (typically but not exclusively a Jewish citizen denied permission to emigrate to Israel).
In 1974, a handful of brave Soviet Jews haunted foreign embassies in Moscow hoping for exit visas. Refuseniks, they were called; the Brezhnev Government wouldn't let them out.
The refuseniki say they don’t want to change anything in the U.S.S.R., only leave it.
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