Hope Opie and Steaker are having a good time in the snow


U.S. familes moved to Russia to escape liberal culture and got drawn into the war with Ukraine



I'm torturing my family, and turning my back on my country because... waaaaaaaa gays!



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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Derek Huffman said he joined the Russian army to expedite the family's applications for Russian citizenship, as well as to show support for their new homeland.

"Above and beyond the citizenship, the money, a big part of it for me is about the respect and earning our place here in Russia," he said on the Huffmans' YouTube channel on May 26.

But in a follow-up video posted in June, which was subsequently deleted, DeAnna Huffman, 42, told viewers that her husband had been "thrown to the wolves." NBC News viewed a re-upload of the video.

The couple had hoped Derek Huffman would put previous welding experience to use in the repair battalion and "actually be utilized for his skills," she said in the video. Instead, she said, he was sent to the front line and struggled to understand his training, which was in Russian.

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We have certain things in common Jeffrey..


Edited: 11/18/2025 at 10:49 PM by fishkller