Editing Defection (section)

===Others===
* [[Viktor Korchnoi]], Russian chess Grandmaster, defected in Amsterdam in 1976.
* [[Walter Polovchak]], minor, defected to the United States in 1980 at 12. He and his parents moved to the United States from [[Ukraine SSR|Soviet Ukraine]] in 1980 but later that year his parents decided to move back to Ukraine. He did not wish to return with them and was the subject of a five-year struggle to stay permanently. He won the right to permanent sanctuary in 1985 upon turning 18.
* The crew of [[Capture of the Tuapse|oil tanker Tuapse]], held hostage in 1954 by the government of [[Taiwan]] during the [[White Terror (Taiwan)|White Terror]]. An unusual case of forced defection, where the crew were forced to defect to the United States to secure their release. Those who refused were subjected to various forms of torture, while those who subsequently retracted their defection and returned to the Soviet Union were sentenced for treason but later pardoned. All surviving crew were released in 1988.
* {{Interlanguage link|Vaas Feniks Nokard|lt=Vaas Feniks Nokard|ja|ワースフェニックス・ノカルド}}, in order to defect from Russia in 2021, swam from [[Kunashir Island]] to [[Hokkaido]], a distance of about 20 kilometers, in 23 hours.<ref>{{Citation |title=【テレビ初告白】なぜ彼は国後島から泳いできたのか 脱出のきっかけ「不愉快な出来事」とは… すべてを語る | date=4 July 2022 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI69OL3cqfw |language=en |access-date=2022-11-03}}</ref>
* [[Yeonmi Park]] is a [[North Korean defectors|North Korean defector]] and activist whose family fled from North Korea to China in 2007.