Welcome to Russia dunba**! On Monday, July 21. 2025, The Telegraph ran an article with this headline, “Father who moved family to Russia to escape ‘woke’ America is sent to front line.”
A Texan father who moved his family to Russia to escape “woke” America has been sent to the front line.
Derek Huffman, 46, relocated to the small town of Istra, around 25 miles from Moscow, with his wife, their three daughters and their husky earlier this year.
They did this through Russia’s “shared values” visa scheme, aimed at attracting foreigners who reject what Vladimir Putin calls “destructive neoliberal ideology”.
Mr Huffman had initially agreed to join the Russian military in a non-combat capacity, thinking at first he would be a welder and later a war correspondent.
But despite having no experience as a soldier and limited understanding of the Russian language, he has been sent “near” the front line in the war with Ukraine, according to his wife.
DeAnna Huffman said her husband felt he was being “thrown to the wolves” given that he had only received a limited amount of training, and that it was in Russian.
“Unfortunately, when you’re taught in a different language, and you don’t understand the language, how are you really getting taught?” she pondered in a vlog uploaded to the family’s YouTube channel.
“You’re not. So, unfortunately, he feels like he’s being thrown to the wolves right now, and he’s kind of having to lean on faith, and that’s what we’re all doing.”
“Bon Voyage as the French say.” said Thomas Robb, National Director of the Knights Party of the Ku Klux Klan, situated centrally in Harrison, Arkansas, with members all across America. “I’ve seen a couple people that stood their ground and left America because Donald Trump was elected. There’s more, but the other three I can think of off hand are all lesbians. Rosie ODonnell and Ellen DeGeneres and her lesbian partner. Well thanks to Obama, they can call themselves married. They bought an $18 million dollar farmhouse in the Cotswolds region of England, and Rosie O’Donnell moved to Ireland. I think it was hypocritical to defect America when it was America that afforded them the money to defect! If these lesbians thought Trump was rough on them, just wait until they face their Creator. I don’t think the excuse ‘you were born this way’ will work to save themselves. And I don’t feel an once of pity for this other family. I wish I were able to convey a message to them. I’d say ‘Trump wasn’t so bad now, was he?’ These idiots that think the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, just may find out different. And this defector, you would think Mr. Huffman would have defected America to go somewhere where he can at least understand their language. Surely America isn’t as tough living in compared to the Russian front.”
