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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."

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[–] BaroqueInMind@fedia.io 72 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Good. Fuck them hope he dies in the meat grinder with the rest of the Russian military dipshits. Christian fascists dont deserve a peaceful life; they bring such persistent suffering to LGBTQ people for the past 2000 years, that I hope no religious group including these types of Christians never sees peace.

[–] sefra1@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I agree, but the kids didn't deserve this, they will forever have their lives ruined thanks to their piece of shit parents. Even more if they turn out to be LGBTQ themselves.

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[–] Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 53 points 2 days ago

Sorry Ukraine - didn't mean to let our trash blow into your yard.

Please kill him swiftly before he has the chance to do any tangible damage to your nation. May his corpse nourish a few sunflowers.

[–] MourningDove@lemmy.zip 35 points 1 day ago

Love that for them!

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 43 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This belongs to leopardsatemyface, no?

[–] Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca 19 points 2 days ago (2 children)

More like "I ate my own face."

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 5 points 1 day ago

in russia, face eats you.

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 27 points 2 days ago

Leopards weren't that interested in my face, so I moved to a country with hungrier leopards.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 67 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (11 children)

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.

https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2018/06/13/how-religious-commitment-varies-by-country-among-people-of-all-ages/

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/e6f791bf-9311-421e-b2c4-6856c7922b77.webp

Religion very important to them

US: 53%

Russia: 16%

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/5914b607-bdf5-4238-883e-46fd51f4c52a.webp

Weekly worship attendance

US: 36%

Russia: 7%

Aside from Poland, where 42% of respondents attend weekly, every other European country in this analysis has rates of attendance at or below 25%.

Clearly Poland needs to start advertising, because Russia probably isn't where you want to go if you're on the hunt for a particularly religious environment, especially if your starting point is the US. Now, Poland's gonna have a more-specifically-Catholic environment, which I bet isn't what they are, but I bet that they aren't Russian Orthodox either, so...

[–] ToastedRavioli@midwest.social 39 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

They could have moved to Ethiopia and been rocking that 82%, if it werent for that pesky racism point theyre standing on

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[–] AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space 6 points 1 day ago

You might want to recheck Poland. The article’s from 2018, and from what I’ve heard, thanks to the aura of Catholic child abuse scandals, they’re speedrunning Ireland’s post-independence history.

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[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 52 points 2 days ago (2 children)

So they moved to a redneck colony run by a notorious professional Russian propagandist in an autocratic nation. Yikes.

[–] FerretyFever0@fedia.io 31 points 2 days ago

Poor, poor white conservative Christians. Really sucks how every once in a while, they don't get to have their balls sucked by everyone. Once in a while.

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[–] 6nk06@sh.itjust.works 28 points 2 days ago

HAHAHAHAHA. That's it, I have no more words to say about this peaceful and Christ-loving family that would kill people if they could.

[–] MNByChoice@midwest.social 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

FYI, this is the same family as the article from the summer. I was uncertain as I had expected they had last been in Russian longer than a few months.

A snopes article. https://www.snopes.com/news/2025/07/22/derek-huffman-russia-war/

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[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 28 points 2 days ago

“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,”

Addition though subtraction.

[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 28 points 2 days ago

To the complete surprise of absolutely nobody.

[–] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Spoiler alert: he lives:(

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