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Refusenik meaning
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). | A person who refuses to do something, usually as a protest; for example, one who refuses conscription or vaccination.
Example sentences (7)
And then there’s getting out of bed in the morning… And the design faults; you might have the time and inclination to do what you’d like to do, like drink, sleep all day and fornicate, but the body’s a determined refusenik.
Reports also say that refusenik draftees are often held in makeshift prisons close to the war zones, as commanders seek to intimidate them to join the war.
And if you’re a mask refusenik – some are calling them muzzles or face nappies – you’re firmly linked to the libertarian right.
Natan Sharansky, a Soviet refusenik, spent 9 years (many of them in solitary confinement) in a Russian prison.
A close friend of the legendary refusenik Natan Sharansky, Dershowitz was one of the most active and influential figures in the movement to free Soviet Jewry.
From Downing Street’s point of view, the erratic, panicked response of the Remain refusenik rump in Parliament to the impending and likely irreversible EU exit on October 31 is exactly what they expected and have planned for.
Over a million Russian Jews emigrated to Israel during and after the Refusenik movements; some brought ethnic Russian relatives along with them.