Anti-Woke Dad Who Fled With Family to Russia Sent to War Zone(barf alert)

The daily Beast ^ | July 18th 2025 | Josh Fiallo

[Ennis85]

Can across this article on a twitter post, with most of the replies sneering at him of course. I can understand why this guy felt the need to leave honestly, that the level of LGBT indoctrination got that bad that he would go to such means to protect his family.

[BipolarBob]

I find it hard to believe Russia would deliberately lie to this man. This must be a document mix-up.

[Vermont Lt]

“ Derek Huffman, 46, feels he is being “thrown to the wolves” after being told that his job in the military would be as a correspondent…”

So his recruiter lied to him? I guess that is a universal truth in all armies. LOL

[GreenLanternCorps]

No sympathy, moved to a dictatorship to avoid homosexuals, gets drafted into an army where male rape is not uncommon in basic training. Did not do his due diligence…

[FlingWingFlyer]

The U.S. Government needs to start keeping its boneheads on a leash. They go to galivanting around the world and always get themselves in trouble or they fall off a cliff taking a selfie. Idiots.

[P-Marlowe]

DeAnna, 42, suggested her husband had been misled during the military recruiting process.

Isn’t that the job of a Military recruiter?

[Codeflier]

Feels like a propaganda piece to me.

[FlingWingFlyer]

LOL! All recruiters are the same. Good point.

[PAR35]

Huffman joined the military

So he wasn't conscripted, he volunteered.

My father told me at a young age that military recruiters lie; apparently Russia follows the American pattern on that.

[PAR35]

gets drafted

Read the excerpt again.

[discostu]

BWAHAHAHAHA

You find it hard to believe a government, ANY government, would lie?!

That’s hilarious. OF COURSE they lied. It’s a government. All governments always lie.

And the Russian government... Even more so.

Wake up and smell reality pal. If any government tells you they won’t do X know with certainty X will happen, very soon.

[linMcHlp]

Mr. Huffman, you need to discipline yourself and train up. Leave the “Oh me, Oh my, Oh . . .” behind.

[tlozo]

It was launched by American blogger Tim Kirby—who has lived in Russia for two decades—in 2023 to attract Americans seeking to escape the “liberal gender norm.” That project has been a flop, with United24Media reporting that only two families, including the Huffmans, have moved in.

There was a freeper thread on this idiocy.

[iamgalt]

Given it is from The Beast odds are it is a totally fabricated story.

[PIF]

he has a strong passion for doing the right thing.

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So other than not checking out what a Russian promise “not to be sent to the front” means in reality, the first thing he did was join the side that is deliberately killing as many civilians and children as possible. Is that supposed to be ‘the right thing’?

🤡 first class 🏆

[No name given]

I’m with you on this one.

[DouglasKC]

I find it hard to believe a recruiter would bend the truth.

[tlozo]

I can understand why this guy felt the need to leave honestly

Man's obviously an idiot, just like the US leftists who in the 20's and 30's emigrated to the "workers paradise" of the Soviet Union.

Alexander Gelver of Oshkosh, Wis., was taken there by his parents. But when the 24-year-old wanted to return to the U.S., he was stopped by Soviet police outside the U.S. Embassy in Moscow. He was arrested and disappeared. Only in the 1990s did his fate become clear: He was executed in 1938, one of Stalin's many victims.

The Associated Press documented the case of Gelver and 14 other Americans who disappeared in the Soviet Union in the 1930s and '40s. All were either imprisoned or executed. Dozens, perhaps hundreds of other Americans, met a similar fate during the rule of Stalin, who suspected that foreigners were spies.

[Fiji Hill]

Unfortunately, when you’re taught in a different language, and you don’t understand the language, how are you really getting taught?

If he wants to be a citizen of the country, why doesn't he learn the language?

[tlozo]

Given it is from The Beast odds are it is a totally fabricated story.

No, its the Huffman family who are posting their idiotic life choices on X.

The Huffman Family (@HuffmanTime) / X