Refusenik
noun, Informal.
1.
a Soviet citizen, usually Jewish, who was denied permission to emigrate from the Soviet Union.
noun
1.
(formerly) a Jew in the Soviet Union who had been refused permission to emigrate
2.
a person who refuses to cooperate with a system or comply with a law because of a moral conviction
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