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Jilly_in_VA

(10,045 posts)
Fri May 12, 2023, 12:44 PM May 2023

Russia Wants to Build a MAGA Colony for US Conservatives, Lawyer Claims

Plans are underway in Russia to build a settlement for conservative American and Canadian immigrants seeking to leave the West “for ideological reasons,” at least according to a Moscow-based immigration lawyer.

Timur Beslangurov, a partner in the law firm VISTA Immigration, claimed that construction would begin next year on a village in the Moscow region for about 200 families from North America, financed by the immigrants themselves.

“The reason is propaganda of radical values: Today they have 70 genders, and who knows what will come next,” he said in comments at a legal forum in St Petersburg, which were reported by Russia’s state-run RIA Novosti news agency Thursday. No evidence has been provided publicly for the claims, and it’s not 100 percent clear what Beslangurov’s role in the reported project is.

VICE News contacted Beslangurov asking for further information on the reported project, and to speak with some of the hundreds of potential Western immigrants he said existed to help verify his claims, but he replied that he wasn’t able to provide further information “at this stage.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin has wooed Western right-wingers and conservatives by positioning himself as a staunch defender of a traditionalist, Christian European identity, resulting in pro-Russian narratives about the invasion of Ukraine becoming widespread in far-right and conspiracist networks.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgwdew/russia-maga-colony

Good. I would personally buy one (1) one-way ticket for anyone leaving for there.

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Russia Wants to Build a MAGA Colony for US Conservatives, Lawyer Claims (Original Post) Jilly_in_VA May 2023 OP
I'm in to buy a one-way ticket for any prospect. Dale in Laurel MD May 2023 #1
Everybody's BS detector should be dinging like crazy. Liberal In Texas May 2023 #2
They have China, Japan and maybe India to help finance them. jimfields33 May 2023 #3
Dasvidaniya! tanyev May 2023 #4
I'm all for it, but I think a better location would be grumpyduck May 2023 #5
Precedents... A Confederate colony in Brazil. Mormon colony in Mexico. keithbvadu2 May 2023 #6
Easier targeting. roamer65 May 2023 #7
This message was self-deleted by its author roamer65 May 2023 #8
If Jim Jones can have his Jonestown, Rump can have his Donniegrad. Buns_of_Fire May 2023 #9
I'm all for it.... Happy Hoosier May 2023 #10
We should set up a Go Fund Me JustAnotherGen May 2023 #11
Republicans, please move to Russia Best_man23 May 2023 #12
i would volunteer to start a GO FUND ME to send all the GOigs over to Russia!!!! Trueblue1968 May 2023 #13
This message was self-deleted by its author traitorsgalore May 2023 #14

Liberal In Texas

(13,615 posts)
2. Everybody's BS detector should be dinging like crazy.
Fri May 12, 2023, 12:53 PM
May 2023

This is never going to happen. The ruskie wants the magats to finance this themselves so that's the first red flag (pun intended). And by next year the ruskies themselves are going to be so broke they won't be able to finance it either. This guy must be the Soviet George Santos.



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Buns_of_Fire

(17,218 posts)
9. If Jim Jones can have his Jonestown, Rump can have his Donniegrad.
Fri May 12, 2023, 02:04 PM
May 2023

More Kool-Aid for all! Now, with vodka!

JustAnotherGen

(32,046 posts)
11. We should set up a Go Fund Me
Fri May 12, 2023, 02:14 PM
May 2023

To help them leave. It would truly make America great again if they would just leave.


Shhhh - no one tell them about gun laws in Russia.

Best_man23

(4,915 posts)
12. Republicans, please move to Russia
Fri May 12, 2023, 03:16 PM
May 2023

There, you can "take the despotism whole, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy." - Abraham Lincoln.

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