Canadian family moved to Russia to escape ‘wokeness’ and LGBTQ+ people. It did not go well

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Misadventures of a Canadian Family in Russia: A Cautionary Tale

 

In a bizarre turn of events, a Canadian family seeking refuge from what they deemed as "wokeness" and LGBTQ+ acceptance in their home country found themselves in a series of misfortunes upon relocating to Russia. Arend Feenstra, a right-wing YouTuber and patriarch of the family, made the decision to move his wife and eight children to Russia, citing concerns about the perceived liberal ideology prevalent in Canada.

 

However, their grand plan of escaping to Russia quickly turned into a comedy of errors. Despite their noble intentions, the Feenstra family found themselves ill-prepared for life in Russia, lacking even the basic knowledge of the language. This became evident when Anneesa Feenstra, the matriarch, struggled to differentiate between male and female restrooms, highlighting their lack of cultural awareness.

 

Their initial weeks in Russia were marked by acts of kindness from locals, who donated winter clothing to the family and offered assistance with language barriers. However, their goodwill couldn't mitigate the family's financial woes. The Feenstras encountered difficulties accessing their funds due to banking regulations and language barriers, leading to frustration and public outbursts.

 

A video documenting their challenges was posted and subsequently deleted, amidst backlash and accusations of disrespect towards Russia. Arend Feenstra attempted to downplay the incident, attributing it to a "misunderstanding" caused by the language barrier.

As the family grapples with their new reality, they have enlisted the help of Russian authorities for immigration assistance. Yet, their timing couldn't be worse, as Russia has recently intensified its crackdown on LGBTQ+ rights, further complicating their situation.

 

In a bitter irony, the family's attempt to seek refuge in a country perceived as more conservative has only exposed their naivety and ignorance. Their misadventure serves as a cautionary tale about the perils of making impulsive decisions based on misconceptions and ideological biases.

 

As the Feenstras navigate the challenges of life in Russia, one can't help but wonder if their quest to escape "wokeness" has led them to a place where intolerance and authoritarianism reign supreme. Only time will tell if they can adapt to their new environment or if their Russian dream will turn into a nightmare.

 

23.02.24

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[Walker88]

I see a Darwinski Award Winner here!

 

He might not hear much about LGBTQ+ (a truly minor issue in the overall scheme of things, but clearly something right wing snowflakes are too weak to ignore), but he's likely to find his income from YouTube will be quashed by lack of free speech in his new paradise of Russia.

 

The good news, however, is he looks young enough to find work going after "Nazis" in neighboring Ukraine. With 8 kids, one or more is likely to be old enough to join him. Since it is possible Ukraine has folks who are part of the LGBTQ+ movement, the guy can try to take out his hostilities on folks there. Of course, they will fight back, but hey...losing your life or the lives of your kids over your sacred cause is surely worth it.

[kwonitoy]

1 hour ago, Walker88 said:

I see a Darwinski Award Winner here!

 

He might not hear much about LGBTQ+ (a truly minor issue in the overall scheme of things, but clearly something right wing snowflakes are too weak to ignore), but he's likely to find his income from YouTube will be quashed by lack of free speech in his new paradise of Russia.

 

The good news, however, is he looks young enough to find work going after "Nazis" in neighboring Ukraine. With 8 kids, one or more is likely to be old enough to join him. Since it is possible Ukraine has folks who are part of the LGBTQ+ movement, the guy can try to take out his hostilities on folks there. Of course, they will fight back, but hey...losing your life or the lives of your kids over your sacred cause is surely worth it.

 

He actually has 9 kids, the oldest is over the age of 18 and noped out of going to russia with the family.

The only smart one of the bunch

This story is in the news here in Canada, they sold their farm in Saskatchewan and moved to russia.

Can't speak the language, mom posted a video critical of russia and got told in no uncertain terms to STFU

Dad had to post a follow up video saying how great russia is

Deposited their money in a russian bank and promptly got all their assets confiscated by friendly government

 

They are in the find out part of FAFO, stay in russia, idiots 

[Skipalongcassidy]

1 hour ago, Walker88 said:

I see a Darwinski Award Winner here!

 

He might not hear much about LGBTQ+ (a truly minor issue in the overall scheme of things, but clearly something right wing snowflakes are too weak to ignore), but he's likely to find his income from YouTube will be quashed by lack of free speech in his new paradise of Russia.

 

The good news, however, is he looks young enough to find work going after "Nazis" in neighboring Ukraine. With 8 kids, one or more is likely to be old enough to join him. Since it is possible Ukraine has folks who are part of the LGBTQ+ movement, the guy can try to take out his hostilities on folks there. Of course, they will fight back, but hey...losing your life or the lives of your kids over your sacred cause is surely worth it.

And this years "Darwinski" goes to Walker88... this is a historic repeat performance... but well deserved.

[JonnyF]

Very stupid.

 

In fact, almost as stupid as the Queers for Palestine crew.

[thaicurious]

I wish them the very best of luck and hope that fascinating youtube of theirs, not mind-numbing at all nor hardly even a complete waste of internet, begins a trend of many more freedumb loving maga-types be they pillow salesmen or youtube stars in their own minds emigrating from their woke home countries to mother Russia. I can't think of a more deserving country.

 

Punished for his written thoughts
Starving for his fame
Working blindly, building blocks
Number for a name, his blood flows frozen to the snow

Red blood, white snow
He knows frozen rivers won't flow
So cold, so true
Mother Russia-he cries for you

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Russia_(Renaissance_song)

"The song is a tribute to Russian fiction writer Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who had been forced by the USSR government to leave the Soviet Union earlier in 1974. Written as usual by poet Betty Thatcher, the lyrics are based on Solzhenitsyn's famous fiction novel about Soviet repression..."

[Tug]

To bad he wrecked his children’s lives and future wonder how long before the idiot starts wanting to come back fool

[James105]

I can certainly understand the desire to vacate the authoritarian woke hellscape that Canada has turned into, but of all the potential options Russia seems an especially daft decision at this time without any connection to the country or its language.   Should probably have just moved to Florida...

[bendejo]

Fail to plan, plan to fail.  Never had the idea to visit the place before moving there?

But couldn't the charitable acts of the people helping them be conceived as "woke"?  OMG! No escape!!  And did one of those neighborly women actually have a penis?   oooooooooooooohhhhhhh  nnnnnooooo!!!

Maybe he listened too much to the TV dinner guy on Fox.

 

[BenStark]

Looks like a youtuber who fell for his own disinformation.

[FritsSikkink]

He could have gone to Alabama, most likely a better fit.

[spidermike007]

Anybody who deliberately moves to Russia has to have their head examined by a very competence psychiatrist. My family left that God forsaken land of Russia several generations ago, and when I asked my last remaining relative about the old country all she could say it was was that it was the worst hell on earth, and that they were thrilled to have escaped. 

[xeniv23]

Spent part of a winter in Siberia in 1999.  Back then it seemed plausible that Russia could become democratic, actually, and integrate into the rest of the world.  Hope was in the air.  Young people were optimistic and very curious about the rest of the world.  Yeltsin really screwed Russia when he handed it all to Putin.  The winter weather was not that bad.  Rather like North Dakota or eastern Montana.  Yakutsk is a whole different thing.  

[neeray]

This story, to me, is incomprehensible. Sell the farm. Leave Canada. Move to Russia. Expect a better life for a family of 10. 

Next, Putin will possibly enlist him. Perhaps Arend Feenstra had never watched any news in Canada and didn't know that there was a war going on.

[Jingthing]

I have been following this family for the same reason it's interesting to look at train wrecks.

The parents are hard core anti LGBT BIGOTS.

They lived in rural Canada and were occasionally exposed to things like rainbow flags when they needed to go into cities.

So because of that they move to Russia, a land ruled by a fascist dictator, where any speech against him or his war of choice (which you're not allowed to call a war) can land you with a long prison sentence or thrown out a window.

His videos feature showing the Russian flag which he calls the new flag of freedom.

Tell that to Navalny.

I consider his family an internal loop small CULT.

I feel both parents are guilty of child abuse.

He openly claims that it was his children (who are of course very sweet) were the reason he moved to Russia because that were offended by the LGBT stuff too.

I don't believe that for a second.

He taught them to be homophobes just as families often teach their kids to be racists.

I think he will probably stay in Russia. He's a great useful idiot for Putin -- great propaganda. I think the Russian government ultimately is invested in more far right wing, anti LGBT, maga, etc. westerners choosing to move to Russia.

Of course they will need to toe the Z Putin line or they'll be screwed.

Edited February 23 by Jingthing

[Jingthing]

2 minutes ago, neeray said:

This story, to me, is incomprehensible. Sell the farm. Leave Canada. Move to Russia. Expect a better life for a family of 10. 

Next, Putin will possibly enlist him. Perhaps Arend Feenstra had never watched any news in Canada and didn't know that there was a war going on.

He's part of a fairly significant trend.

The Putin regime is encouraging this for propaganda purposes. 

There has even been talk of building a Maga village specifically for Maga Americans.

I wonder if there was a similar trend of North Americans moving to Nazi Germany.

Edited February 23 by Jingthing

[Purdey]

It looks like the Canadski Feenstras family expected Russians to speak English and for everything to be exactly like Canada in every respect except without the ‘wokeness’ and LGBTQ+. Why didn't they google Russia, I wonder?

[Jingthing]

3 minutes ago, Purdey said:

It looks like the Canadski Feenstras family expected Russians to speak English and for everything to be exactly like Canada in every respect except without the ‘wokeness’ and LGBTQ+. Why didn't they google Russia, I wonder?

He has claimed he has been researching Russia for many years.

I don't doubt he knows a lot about farming.

I can understand getting out of Canada or the US.

Costs are too high, probably too regulated, especially the US wracked by political division. 
But for his purposes there were scads of better choices than Russia all places!

For example Paraguay and I'm sure Spanish is easier to learn than Russian. 

[Purdey]

2 minutes ago, Jingthing said:

He has claimed he has been researching Russia for many years.

I don't doubt he knows a lot about farming.

I can understand getting out of Canada or the US.

Costs are too high, probably too regulated, especially the US wracked by political division. 
But for his purposes there were scads of better choices than Russia all places!

For example Paraguay and I'm sure Spanish is easier to learn than Russian. 

I agree. They must be daft.

[mfd101]

CIA plot: Raise average IQ across Nth America; reduce average IQ in Russia.

[Walker88]

5 hours ago, Skipalongcassidy said:

And this years "Darwinski" goes to Walker88... this is a historic repeat performance... but well deserved.

I humbly accept your praise.

 

To show my gratitude, I'll buy you a first class one-way ticket on a lovely and dependable Aeroflot Ilyushin Il-96 to join the Feenstra's in their new paradise, far away from those LG+++people who live rent free in your head, and whose existence is obviously more significant to you than any other issue facing the planet and species.

 

I understand as part of the entertainment option on Aeroflot they run the trump pp tape, as well as his lectures on the cancer danger from wind turbines and the value of injecting Lysol to stave off the Chinese Hoax known as Covid-19. Oh, and de-banking....to help get your financial affairs in order.

[blazes]

 

Whatever their motive for leaving Trudeauland, the most bizarre thing is that they are leaving a place, Saskatchewan, that challenges Siberia for coldest place on the planet in winter.

[ozimoron]

7 minutes ago, blazes said:

 

Whatever their motive for leaving Trudeauland, the most bizarre thing is that they are leaving a place, Saskatchewan, that challenges Siberia for coldest place on the planet in winter.

 

They should have taken the shortest flight - to Siberia. Maybe they could help fill in the sink holes from melting methane.

[Dolf]

Mexico would have been better. They seem fairly straight and it's easier to go back home.

[yankyoakum]

Karma baby.....very fitting...

[James105]

1 hour ago, Jingthing said:

They lived in rural Canada and were occasionally exposed to things like rainbow flags when they needed to go into cities.

 

He has 8 kids.  If they are unfortunate enough to be white and straight in Canada then they face a potential lifetime of discrimination and racism against them.   It wouldn't be the first time parents have moved countries to give their kids the potential of a better life, but in this case the parents made a poor choice of destination.   Bit like moving from Oceania to Eurasia really.   

[blazes]

55 minutes ago, Dolf said:

Mexico would have been better. They seem fairly straight and it's easier to go back home.

 

"Straight"!!!!  Love that....

[rudi49jr]

2 hours ago, Jingthing said:

He's part of a fairly significant trend.

The Putin regime is encouraging this for propaganda purposes. 

There has even been talk of building a Maga village specifically for Maga Americans.

I wonder if there was a similar trend of North Americans moving to Nazi Germany.

I know there were tens of thousands of men in Europe who voluntarily joined the German army to fight the Russians (communism) in WWII. Two uncles of mine joined. Wouldn’t be surprised if there were quite a few Americans as well.

 

Arend Feenstra sounds definitely Dutch, by the way. Feenstra is actually a last name that’s very common in the Dutch province of Friesland. So he is either the son of Dutch immigrants, or one of the many farmers that moved from Holland to Canada over the last few decades. Either way, being Dutch myself, I can’t say I’m very proud of my countryman, and that’s putting it very mildly.

[Cory1848]

2 hours ago, xeniv23 said:

Spent part of a winter in Siberia in 1999.  Back then it seemed plausible that Russia could become democratic, actually, and integrate into the rest of the world.  Hope was in the air.  Young people were optimistic and very curious about the rest of the world.  Yeltsin really screwed Russia when he handed it all to Putin.  The winter weather was not that bad.  Rather like North Dakota or eastern Montana.  Yakutsk is a whole different thing.  

That must have been really interesting, and beautiful. I traveled to Russia a few times in the 2000s (Saint Petersburg, Novgorod, Moscow), and if times now were happier, it might indeed be a nice place to live (but I’d sure as heck learn the language). I found these cities, superficially at least, very cosmopolitan and “European.” Of course, visiting Saint Petersburg and Moscow would be like only visiting New York and San Francisco in the US; in Siberia, I’m sure you had a much broader experience (and I’ve read that Yakutsk is the coldest city on the planet). I trust that the Russians will find some way to end their current nightmare and get back on a more integrative, progressive track ...

[Jingthing]

1 hour ago, James105 said:

 

He has 8 kids.  If they are unfortunate enough to be white and straight in Canada then they face a potential lifetime of discrimination and racism against them.   It wouldn't be the first time parents have moved countries to give their kids the potential of a better life, but in this case the parents made a poor choice of destination.   Bit like moving from Oceania to Eurasia really.   

Blimey I reckon rural Saskatchewan is as white as the driven snow. 

Also statistically there is a good chance at least one of their family cult will be gay.

That's gonna be great in Russia!