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REFUSENIK: The Movie
Less than one week remains before the thought provoking screening of the short version of REFUSENIK and discussion about the Soviet Jewry movement.
How did RuJu-s get to the U.S.?Why did the government of the United States pressure the Soviet empire to let the Jews go?
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What did the Refuseniks actually fight for?
REFUSENIK is the first retrospective documentary to chronicle the thirty-year movement to free Soviet Jews. It shows how a small grassroots effort bold enough to take on a Cold War superpower blossomed into an international human rights campaign that engaged the disempowered and world leaders alike. Told through the eyes of activists on both sides of the Iron Curtain - many of whom survived punishment in Soviet Gulag labor camps - the film is a tapestry of first-person accounts of heroism, sacrifice, and ultimately, liberation.