He's a refusenik.
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Refusenik
//ɹɪˈfjuːznɪk//
Synonyms for "refusenik" (13 found)
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29 translations across 17 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- refusenik noun (one of the citizens of the former Soviet Union who was refused permission to emigrate)
Arabic
1 entries- رافض noun (one of the citizens of the former Soviet Union who was refused permission to emigrate)
Catalan
1 entries- refusenik noun (one of the citizens of the former Soviet Union who was refused permission to emigrate)
Czech
1 entries- refusenik noun (one of the citizens of the former Soviet Union who was refused permission to emigrate)
Finnish
2 entries- kieltäytyjä noun (person who refuses to do something, usually as a protest)
- refusnik noun (one of the citizens of the former Soviet Union who was refused permission to emigrate)
French
2 entries- refuznik noun (one of the citizens of the former Soviet Union who was refused permission to emigrate)
- refuznik noun (person who refuses to do something, usually as a protest)
German
4 entries- Otkasnik noun (one of the citizens of the former Soviet Union who was refused permission to emigrate)
- Refusenik noun (one of the citizens of the former Soviet Union who was refused permission to emigrate)
- Verweigerer noun (person who refuses to do something, usually as a protest)
- Verweigerin noun (person who refuses to do something, usually as a protest)
Greek
2 entries- αρνήτρια noun (person who refuses to do something, usually as a protest)
- αρνητής noun (person who refuses to do something, usually as a protest)
Hebrew
1 entries- מסורב עֲלִיָּה noun (one of the citizens of the former Soviet Union who was refused permission to emigrate)
Hungarian
1 entries- refusenik noun (one of the citizens of the former Soviet Union who was refused permission to emigrate)
Macedonian
2 entries- о́дбивач noun (one of the citizens of the former Soviet Union who was refused permission to emigrate)
- о́дбивач noun (person who refuses to do something, usually as a protest)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- refusenik noun (one of the citizens of the former Soviet Union who was refused permission to emigrate)
Occitan
1 entries- refusnic noun (one of the citizens of the former Soviet Union who was refused permission to emigrate)
Portuguese
1 entries- refusenik noun (one of the citizens of the former Soviet Union who was refused permission to emigrate)
Russian
4 entries- отка́зник noun (one of the citizens of the former Soviet Union who was refused permission to emigrate)
- отка́зник noun (person who refuses to do something, usually as a protest)
- отка́зница noun (one of the citizens of the former Soviet Union who was refused permission to emigrate)
- отка́зница noun (person who refuses to do something, usually as a protest)
Spanish
2 entries- refusenik noun (one of the citizens of the former Soviet Union who was refused permission to emigrate)
- refyuznik noun (one of the citizens of the former Soviet Union who was refused permission to emigrate)
Yiddish
2 entries- אַסיר ציון noun (one of the citizens of the former Soviet Union who was refused permission to emigrate)
- רעפֿיוזניק noun (one of the citizens of the former Soviet Union who was refused permission to emigrate)
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The refuseniki say they don’t want to change anything in the U.S.S.R., only leave it.
Source: wiktionary
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.
Source: wiktionary
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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