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<p><b>Refusenik</b>  (, ; alternatively spelled <b>refusnik</b>) was an unofficial term for individuals--typically, but not exclusively, <a href="page.php?w=History_of_the_Jews_in_the_Soviet_Union">Soviet Jews</a>--who were <a href="page.php?w=Travel_visa">denied permission to emigrate</a>, primarily to <a href="page.php?w=Israel">Israel</a>, by the authorities of the <a href="page.php?w=Soviet_Union">Soviet Union</a> and other countries of the <a href="page.php?w=Eastern_Bloc">Soviet Bloc</a>. The term refusenik is derived from the "refusal" handed</p><p>
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