A Canadian family moved to Russia to escape LGBTQ+ 'wokeness'. It did not go well

Right-wing family moved to Russia to escape LGBTQ+ people. Then Russia froze their bank accounts.

A right-wing Canadian family was so disgusted by their country’s LGBTQ+ acceptance they decided to sell everything they owned and emigrate to Russia to live under Vladimir Putin’s brutal anti-LGBTQ+ authoritarian regime. Soon after they arrived, their bank accounts were frozen, leaving them “frustrated” with only a small amount of cash to provide for their eight children. Related: LGBTQ+ Russians are “ordinary people” in new photo book workin…

A Canadian family moved to Russia to escape LGBTQ+ 'wokeness'. It did not go well

The YouTuber patriarch of a right-wing Canadian family, Arend Feenstra, decided that he’d had just about enough of the gay people existing in his country. So he decided to take his family to Russia instead. “We didn’t feel safe for our children there in the future anymore,” said avowedly Christian dad of eight Arend Feenstra on Russian state TV. “There’s a lot of left-wing ideology, LGBTQ+, trans, just a lot of things that we don’t agree with th…