Between 1936-1938 , beginning in the same year in which “ Seekers of Happiness ” was released , purges in all national republics and provinces took place , wiping out the local party leaderships and administrative elites . With them the national policy shifted from a cultural integrative federal system to Russification and centralism . The murder of the JAO elites was being justified by reproaching them of secret Zionist and Trotskyst ideology and spionage . 1938 even KOMZET and OZET fell prey to the Great Purge . In effect the purge led to the destruction of the soviet Yiddish culture that had slowly developed in the short time the JAO had already existed . Only after World War II and under the impression of the shoa , a Yiddish culture on Soviet soil was shortly in bloom again . This time , however , not initiated by the government , but solely due to higher migration
shoa
The Holocaust
Seekers of Happiness