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

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."

  • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
    335·
    2 days ago

    …Isn’t Putin’s Russia ostensibly authoritarian leftist?

    EG they are philosophically against individualism, materialism and such, kinda like Soviet Russia?

    • grte@lemmy.caEnglish
      28·
      2 days ago

      Uh, no…? You are aware the USSR collapsed in '91 and the modern Russia is very much not left wing in any sense? Ostensibly or otherwise. There was that whole Shock Therapy thing where they went capitalist in the most destructive way possible.

      • OctopusNemeses@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        2 days ago

        Somewhere there’s a line in propaganda playbook that says to blame everything on the left. Has to be. At this point so there’s been many random comments attempting to “ackshually the left”. Probably the the cover of such a thing is titled Flooding the Zone or something.

      • brucethemoose@lemmy.worldEnglish
        211·
        2 days ago

        I tried to look up Putanism and the associated ideology. Shrug.

        I’m not saying it’s authentic, but a lot of stuff seems to be cloaked in Soviet nostalgia and collectivist, anti-capitalist ideals. Hence, tankies.

        • bthest@lemmy.worldEnglish
          32·
          2 days ago

          I tried to look up Putanism and the associated ideology. Shrug.

          It’s okay. Reading seems like a difficult thing for you. You tried at least.