A video warning fleeing Russians of imagined interactions in America that is circulating on pro-Kremlin telegram channels has gone viral on Twitter.
The video is broken up into multiple skits where a man, his wife and child are on a plane leaving Russia to permanently live in America.
The video creates ludicrous situations where it suggested Russians must now be concerned about same-sex couples, black people and vegetarians.
The video was posted by Twitter user Kermlin Russia on Wednesday and so far has been viewed more than 450,000 times.
“The Russian Federation launched videos against the avalanche of migration,” read the video’s caption, according to a Google translation. “Like in the USA there are terrible same-sex marriages and ‘we must apologize to the blacks'”.
“In beautiful Putin’s Russia, you will just be forcibly taken into the army and thrown into a cold trench in a plastic helmet with a rusty machine gun under the [HIMARS]”
In the first scene, the man is speaking with his wife and child about moving to America.
According to a translation, the man says: “Finally, we are going. I’ve wanted to do this for so long.
His wife replies: “God willing, we’ll get there okay. It’s such a pity though, it’s our motherland.”
The family eventually begins speaking to another passenger who asks if they are flying to America.
When asked if she is from there the passenger replies: “Yes. You are doing the right thing. America is the freest country in the world a land of opportunity”.
The wife asks whether she is with her husband to which the passenger replies “yes they will be here shortly” before the woman introduces her husband as Emily. The man and wife then exchange odd looks with one another.
In the second scene, a stewardess approaches the same man sitting with his family as he is about to eat a piece of meat as part of the in-flight meal.
He is then told that the passengers behind them are vegetarians and don’t like others eating meat in front of them.
The man argues that he is not forcing them to eat it but the stewardess answers “In America, we uphold the principles of democracy. Allow me to take your plate.”
In the final scene, the man is now up and standing in line for the bathroom on the plane. A Black man attempts to walk by him and is told that there is a queue.
When the stewardess intervenes the man said, according to the translation:” This dude is trying to jump the line.”
The stewardess answered: “So what, you don’t want to let him through?”
Another man joined in on the conversation and said: “Of course, of course, you have to let him through. We will wait.”
Another person chimed in: “His people have been oppressed by the white men for centuries. We owe a debt to all African Americans.”
This viral clip comes weeks after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a partial mobilization on September 21 to support the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Following this announcement, hundreds of thousands of Russians attempted to leave the country. This resulted in significant chaos for airlines and train services, which were flooded with those attempting to leave the country.
While the exact number of Russians attempting to flee to most neighboring countries remains unknown, Kazakhstan’s Interior Minister Marat Akhmethanov said in an interview published by zakon.kz on October 4 that 200,000 Russian citizens had entered his country in the previous two weeks, while 147,000 had departed.
Judging from the long lines at border crossings into Russia’s other visa-free travel neighbors, the numbers are likely to be similar elsewhere. In the Republic of Georgia, the wave of new arrivals was felt almost immediately.
By September 23, the line of cars and bicycles waiting to exit Russia through the Verkhny Lars checkpoint was already several kilometers long.
People who arrived at the border crossing on foot reported that many of the cars they walked past carried families with young children.
