He's a refusenik.
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Refusenik
/ɹɪˈfjuːznɪk/
Synonyms for "refusenik" (2 found)
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The refuseniki say they don’t want to change anything in the U.S.S.R., only leave it.
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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.
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The refuseniki (those refused exit visas) were at the forefront of the dissident movement of the 1970s and a major irritant in US-Soviet relations until Gorbachev signalled a change in policy by allowing the veteran refusenik Anatoly Scharansky to emigrate in 1986.
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