MAGA voters have explained why they turned their backs on the United States in search of a new life in Russia, claiming the former communist state is a “positive vision of 1950s America.”
Conservative men have cited the country’s Christian values, beautiful women and stunning landscapes as reasons behind their decision.
After losing faith in their hero Donald Trump, some have moved to Siberia, unfazed by the prospect of being led by an autocratic dictator.
They have even expressed admiration for Vladimir Putin and have chosen to believe his account of his decision to invade Ukraine.
“I think he’s a good man,” expat Peter Frohwein, 62, told the Free Press. “This lie that he is somehow a dictator; just because he was in the KGB doesn’t mean he ever killed anyone.”
MAGA voters have explained why they turned their backs on the United States in search of a new life in Russia. They include Joseph Rose and his family (pictured) who left Florida for Moscow and believe Russia is like the “America of the 1950s.”
Bernd Ratsch, 56, moved to Moscow from Texas after becoming fed up with American politics and disillusioned with his former hero, Donald Trump.
After losing faith in their hero Donald Trump, some have moved to Siberia, unfazed by the prospect of being led by an autocratic dictator.
Frohwein is divorced and has no children, but hopes to start a family. He moved from Atlanta to Yalta in Crimea in July 2023.
“Twenty percent of women could be supermodels,” he said, explaining that he anticipates his children will speak three languages: English, Russian and Mandarin.
“Nowadays I wouldn’t seriously consider starting a family in the United States,” he added. ‘The United States is a political disaster. Socially, things are a disaster. Spiritually, things are a mess.’
This assessment of American politics is shared by Bernd Ratsch, 56, who moved to Moscow from Texas in 2019.
‘Is Trump better than Biden? Of course. But I want it? Would you vote for him again? No. It’s just, “Boy, shut your mouth for a while,” he explained.
Meanwhile, family man Joseph Rose has managed to carve out a career with his YouTube channel documenting his new life in Moscow.
“I would say that Russia is becoming a bastion of Christianity and that the United States is becoming the opposite,” Rose explained.
‘I believe it was God who guided me to where I needed to be right now. They put me in a place where they could use me.’
Peter Frohwein hopes to start a family in his new home in Yalta with one of the ‘20%’ of Russian women who he says look like supermodels.
Conservative men have cited the country’s Christian values, beautiful women and stunning landscapes as reasons behind their decision. In the photo: Snowfall in Moscow, May 8.
Many of the expatriates expressed admiration for Vladimir Putin and support his narrative about his invasion of Ukraine.
Rose, 49, moved to Russia from Tallahassee, Florida, with his wife and children and hasn’t looked back since.
“I often say it feels like our positive vision of 1950s America,” he explained.
A Texas program director, who wished to remain anonymous, suggested that Russia offered a simpler way of life.
“People are running around America wondering why we have so many problems with suicide and depression, and they’re doing virtuous signaling and talking about phones, and it’s this and that, and the reality is that kids aren’t allowed to be kids. “. said the father of six.
His comments have echoes of the conservative Christian Feenstra family who moved from Canada to Russia to “escape LGBT ideology.”
Farmer Arend Feenstra and his wife Anneesa made the decision to move their family of 10 from Canada to Russia in January; However, his dream seemed to go quickly downhill upon his arrival.
The proceeds from the sale of his farm in rural Canada were immediately frozen as his Russian bank deemed the sum “suspicious.”
His wife Anneesa took to social media to complain about useless locals who didn’t speak English, but later apologized after Russian government officials learned of the insults she had been inflicting.
The US government urged Americans to leave Russia following Putin’s invasion of Ukraine amid worsening relations.
However, Arend Feenstra and his wife Anneesa (pictured together) had a “nightmare” experience when they moved to Russia to “escape the LGBTQ ideology” in Canada.
The US government advised citizens to leave Russia following its invasion of Ukraine. Pictured: A gas worker inspects a ruined private house after a Russian missile attack in the kyiv region, Ukraine, May 8, 2024.
The tensions between the White House and Moscow are evident in the arrest of journalist Evan Gershkovich, the first American journalist to be arrested on espionage charges in Russia since the Cold War and who has been in prison for more than a year.
The rupture has been evidenced by the arrest of American journalist Evan Gershkovich on espionage charges that both the journalist, his newspaper and the United States government flatly deny.
Gershkovich, 32, became the first American journalist to be arrested on espionage charges in Russia since the Cold War when he was detained by the Federal Security Service (FSB) on March 29 last year.
