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internal exile

American

noun

a state of comparative isolation imposed upon certain political dissidents within the former Soviet Union, in which the subject was forced to live in a remote and often unfamiliar place and in which freedom of movement and personal contact with family, friends, and associates were severely restricted.

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In 1980 he was sent into internal exile, which lasted six years.

From Washington Times • Aug. 18, 2023

He was sentenced to internal exile in the northern republic of Komi in the 1980s and returned to Moscow by 1985.

From Reuters • Feb. 28, 2023

Was Andrei Sakharov silenced by internal exile in Gorky?

From Washington Post • Apr. 29, 2022

Buckingham Palace has banished Andrew to internal exile, stripping him of his honorary military titles and his official duties, and warned there would be no rehabilitation.

From New York Times • Feb. 16, 2022

They were determined to lessen her influence and did it with a brazen and shameless act: they sent her into internal exile.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

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