• renrenPDX@lemmy.world
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    30 days ago

    Didn’t a conservative family already try living in Russia recently and found out it wasn’t all like a better version of America?

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      30 days ago

      There was a homophobic family from here in Sasktachewan (the Feenstra’s), who sold their family farm and dragged their 8 kids to Russia to escape the “far leftist” and “lgbtq ideology” here in Canada. Guess it didn’t work out too well for them since they had their bank accounts frozen (possibly assets seized) and then proceeded to speak ill of Russia (including they don’t speak English there) only to have to publicly apologize and eat their words.

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        29 days ago

        I’d laugh but that sounds like 8 kids had their lives ruined by some idiots.

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          29 days ago

          Yeah, I feel horrible for those kids. His wife also at least seems to have at least realized what a mistake they had made. Her husband though, has done nothing but double down on staying in Russia.