As many as 1,500 “ideological immigrants,” including 127 Americans, have applied for temporary residence in Russia in the last year.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/38217713

As many as 1,500 “ideological immigrants,” including 127 Americans, have applied for temporary residence in Russia in the last year.

Two years ago, Derek and DeAnna Huffman were desperate to leave Humble, a suburb of Houston. Their three daughters, they believed, were being brainwashed by public school and mainstream media to support LGBTQ rights. American culture in general no longer offered white people the same opportunities as other races, they said.

The couple yearned to live in a place that shared their “Christian values” and where they “weren’t going to be discriminated against” as white, politically-conservative Christians.

So in March, the Huffmans became the first family to move to a community planned for fellow English-speakers some 30 miles west of Moscow, a project they had been following online run by long-term American expat and former Kremlin-sponsored RT host Tim Kirby. The family is among a small but growing number of Americans who have moved to Russia because the United States, in their opinion, has become too “woke."

  • partial_accumen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    46·
    2 days ago

    Another American family that also went to Russia is featured in the article:

    “It was the promise of a country that would not promote the LGBT agenda. We liked the fact that LGBT is basically outlawed here in official ways,” Leo Hare, 62

    They say their initial plan to rent an apartment in Moscow fell through just as they boarded the plane from Texas, and the family spent a bitterly cold winter caring for chickens, horses and rabbits on a farm 70 miles south of Moscow in exchange for free board. At one point, they even had to bring the goats and their newborns inside their cabin to keep the animals from dying.

    They are literally living indoors with livestock to avoid LGBT references in popular culture they experienced in America.

    Leo Hare thought their troubles were over when their landlord’s son offered a generous interest rate for investing their $50,000 nest egg in what he described as a car import business. But they only saw one payment before he stopped sending them money and refused to return their money, Leo Hare said.

    Sometimes gullible people just broadcast that fact themselves.

    • slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.orgEnglish
      12·
      2 days ago

      That’s like some american dad joke where people sit in a shed surrounded by livestock and feces, almost freezing to death going: at least there are no gays here.

    • pdxfed@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      2 days ago

      At some point they’ll realize Putin is not running a car import business either and could maybe see through a bit of the fog, but they won’t. Willful blinders don’t come off.

      They would rather deny their children schooling than admit they were wrong and foolish.

      I hope more join them.

    • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      15·
      2 days ago

      Given how little sympathy they show to children groomed by ISIS, I’ll give them even less sympathy as they were adults making that choice.