When Derek Huffman packed up his Arizona home last year and boarded a plane to Russia with his wife DeAnna and three of their six children, he believed he was escaping a crumbling America for a brighter, safer future.

On YouTube, where the family chronicled their move, Derek railed against what he called the 'indoctrination of children' with LGBT ideology, 'mind-blowing' urban rates, and neighborhoods he said were 'overrun by immigrants'.