They moved to Russia seeking a better life, but things backfired badly

Submitted ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨hanrahan@slrpnk.net⁩ to ⁨australia@aussie.zone⁩

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08-01/the-western-immigrants-who-sought-better-life-in-russia/105599094

cross-posted from: slrpnk.net/post/25479430

She moved to Moscow from Miami in 2019 — before Mr Putin’s new scheme was introduced — seeking to escape racism in the United States.

Earlier this month, the Black woman took to social media with a bloodied face, saying she’d been attacked by bigoted neighbours

In a video uploaded on Instagram this month, Ms Villa says her neighbours changed the locks to her apartment and cut off her electricity.

A 2021 report by Amnesty International said “violent racism” was “out of control” in Russia.

It said attacks, including killings, were reported with “shocking regularity” and that “anyone who does not look typically Russian” was at risk.

Also talks of the Texas family posted elsewhere in here. Still alive … Apparently.

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AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Let me get this straight: She moved from the US to Russia TO ESCAPE RACISM?!?!

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- null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Not sending our best and brightest.
  
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- j4k3@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  You can’t fix stupid. One must flee to intellectuals to escape racism. The closer one gets to agrarian culture the more backwards the average group will be. Russia is a backwards backwater wilderness with a tiny sliver of civility within the fringe of northeastern Europe. All of Russia has a GDP the size of Texas, and Texas is nothing compared to California or New York. One moves to Russia because of stupidity or desperation.
  
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- TassieTosser@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  What propaganda from state media does to a mf.
  
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null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
The stupidity of these people is breath-taking. I can’t find it within myself to feel sorry for them honestly. I feel sorry for the children of these morons I guess.

Old mate that voluntarily became cannon-fodder is sadly just too stupid to be allowed to draw breath. My knowledge of russia is meager to say the least but even I know their military operations run on fresh meat.

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Aussieiuszko@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
This is great.

Let’s encourage more of our worst to emigrate and die in Russia. I hope every day feels worse for the fuckers.

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- null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I’ve been mulling over a kind of dickhead exchange in recent months.
  
  There’s plenty of Americans who are just normal people, who might be considered “the radical left” at home. We should create a special class of visa for them.
  
  In exchange, we could send them our own home grown wankers.
  
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  - SaneMartigan@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Wanna drive a yank tank? congrats you can do it in the USA.
    
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  - Aussieiuszko@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I think Pauline would have a fit if we deported her, so I support this.
    
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SaneMartigan@aussie.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Dumb cunts.

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Mac@mander.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
It makes me sad that our society isn’t built to a point where we can care for the misguided and make even their lives better.

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- imTIREDnhungryboss@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  it makes me said when some jackass spews his lack of a education show on the Internet
  
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- hanrahan@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Well, one i terviwed is a qualified GP who is an abbot(ess) of the Russian Orthodox church in western Sydney
  
  I think it’s safe to say her indoctrination by religion has gone a long way to shaping her world view. Parents presumably ?
  
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- OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Democracies where everyone over a certain age can vote tend to not work that way. Plutocracies even less so.
  
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