Black woman who left US for Russia to escape ‘discrimination’ is beaten by racist neighbors

NY Post ^ | 7/15/2025 | Staff

[marcusmaximus]

A black woman who moved from the US to Russia to escape ‘discrimination’ and ‘racism’ revealed on social media that the entire plan backfired on her in a disturbing way. In a heartbreaking video, Francine Villa claims both she and her baby were brutally attacked by racist neighbors in Moscow. The fact that the attack occurred in her homeland is an extra painful blow.

Villa had previously spoken about her move back in the 2020 documentary “Black in the USSR” which aired on the Russian State Media channel, RT. After a year of living in Moscow, she told RT, “I feel free living in Russia, because in Russia, no matter what time it is, I can walk outside and I'm safe.”

Five years later, that proved to be a fantasy.

[metmom]

Russia is a black woman’s homeland??????

Color me skeptical.

[VeniVidiVici]

chornaya zhopa

Ah yes, a Russian term of endearment especially for black people. Her neighbors must be fond of her.

[NorthMountain]

They just think the US is awful because they, and their parents, and their grandparents, have been subjected to endless hours of "America is awful" propaganda in schools, entertainment media, news media, and political grandstanding.

[metmom]

Villa had previously spoken about her move back in the 2020 documentary “Black in the USSR” which aired on the Russian State Media channel, RT. After a year of living in Moscow, she told RT, “I feel free living in Russia, because in Russia, no matter what time it is, I can walk outside and I’m safe.”

No comment.......

[ladyjane]

It doesn’t sound like the grandfather was a communist and moved to Russia for political reasons. He was working there and got stuck there during the war.

[rktman]

Yup, them friendly folks. Some never learn just how awesome it is living in the U.S!

[exPBRrat]

Wherever you go in the world... There you are.

[Surrounded_too]

IIRC, Ford was said to be a Nazi sympathizer?

So, why would he recruit people to help a foe of the Nazi process?

[bdfromlv]

while in Japan with the reserves in the 80s many bars and restaurants in the countryside wouldn’t allow black airmen in. only around the bases.

[ronniesgal]

not just the USA that doesn’t like/want black people.

[philled]

Biden really swindled the Russians on that deal! We gave up “The Merchant of Death” Viktor Bout for (checks notes) an ungrateful female(?) basketball player who had some marijuana for her personal use.

[Truthsearcher]

Don’t kid yourself, Americans who went to the USSR pre-WWII were people enamored with Communism.

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

Try North Korea.

[EnderWiggin1970]

The blurb says nothing about what brought on the attack, which is a gaping omission. I'm not saying it is justifiable, but my guess would be that it was for a reason that conflicts with the western media narrative here (in other words, the story is selling a lie), and thus had to be left out.

I was born in Detroit and grew up in a mostly black school system before moving to job in heavily white areas. My experience is that below a certain threshhold, minorities are viewed as curiousities and judged on their individual merits rather than out of the prejudice the media focuses on so myopically. Minorities in such cases can succeed very well in their community with little or no prejudice against them. For example I was at a sizable factory with a thousand workers and we got a black plant manager (the top position). This in a rural community with no more than a handful of black residents out of four thousand total. And I never heard a whisper of complaint or negativity about his race. Same for my experience in Wyoming, where blacks are few and far between, and I simply never hear racist comments uttered. It's only when a minority becomes a sizable part of the population that individuals in the minority group become viewed as one of the group rather than as an individual, and prejudice begins to rear its ugly head.

So in this case the lady was there for years, so the neighbors would not have been reacting from blind prejudice anyway. If that was the issue the attack would have happened years ago. Whatever happened is far more likely due to relations between the neighbors and her as an individual. Now, why would the media be so obviously trying to avoid exploring the actual root cause of the attack?

[Organic Panic]

The USA is the least racist nation in the history of humanity. Blacks who cry racism about everything on,y do so for the power and prestige it brings. Look at clowns like LeBron James, Oprah, and Moochelle Obama. They are fabulously wealthy and live the most sheltered lives that anyone ever to have lived yet they still cry the nation that gave them so much is racist.

[marcusmaximus]

I think it was an altercation about a baby stroller in the apartment building vestibule.

[delchiante]

:)

[ichabod1]

They aren’t that homogeneous, but its every shape size and color of slavs tatars and turkomen. none of which would feel much ancestral guilt in dealings with African-americans.

[ichabod1]

This lady tells the story of the fate of those thousands of American engineers that Stalin had recruited in an extremely elegant and compelling narrative.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcnkPNh5jD8

[Magnum44]