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In 1970, a group of 16 refuseniks (two of whom were not Jewish), organized by dissident Eduard Kuznetsov (who already served a seven-year term in Soviet prisons), plotted to buy all the seats for the local flight Leningrad-Priozersk, under the guise of a trip to a wedding, on a small 12-seater aircraft Antonov An-2 (colloquially known as кукурузник, kukuruznik), throw out the pilots ...
This category includes Refuseniks, i.e. people who were initially denied permission to emigrate abroad by the authorities of the former Soviet Union and countries of Eastern Bloc. In practice, the majority of Refuseniks were people of Jewish background trying to emigrate to Israel.
Refusenik is the first retrospective documentary to chronicle the thirty-year international human rights campaign to free more than 1.5 million Soviet Jews who tried to escape the pervasive anti-Semitism of postwar Russia. Refuseniks is the term that Soviet Jews gave themselves when they were refused exit visas. [31]
The Israeli Labor Party and other Meretz members have condemned the refuseniks and said that although their protests against the occupation are justified and understandable, the means they are taking to manifest it are wrong. Some major left-wing politicians expressed the fear that left-oriented refusal to serve in the territories will lend ...
After Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost policy in the late 1980s started to release some of the more high-profile refuseniks from prison, and allowed some of them to emigrate, Singer and her fellow activists continued to fight, but began concentrating more on more typical Soviet Jewish families who were still trapped behind the Iron Curtain. [3]
Nudel was born in 1931 in Novorossiysk, Krasnodar Krai, in the Russian SFSR.In 1970, she heard of the Dymshits-Kuznetsov hijacking affair, and decided to emigrate.She contacted a Jew named Vladimir Prestin, a known refusenik who was secretly teaching Hebrew. [2]
Yosef Mendelevitch Yosef Mendelevitch with President Reagan, Vice President Bush and Avital Sharansky in the White House, May 28, 1981.. Yosef Mendelevitch (or Mendelovitch) (b. 1947 in Riga) is a refusenik from the former Soviet Union, also known as a "Prisoner of Zion" and now a politically unaffiliated rabbi [1] [2] living in Jerusalem who gained fame for his adherence to Judaism and public ...
Unofficial seminar of scientists-refuseniks, April 1977. Starting from 1972 Fain gradually started to participate in a Zionist movement. He took part in refusenik scientific seminar, and also in Samizdat. [5] He applied for exit visa to Israel in 1974 and became a refusenik. He also became unemployed after dismissal from his work on political ...