In the early 1930s , suspected prostitutes were subjected to administrative expulsions . With the deployment of the Great Terror they were sentenced to imprisonment on political charges : prostitutes were now classed as class enemies . At the same time , any information about prostitution from the press pages disappeared to create the impression of eradicating the phenomenon . Indeed , organised forms of prostitution in Stalin 's times were eradicated . It was believed that prostitution " as a widespread social phenomenon " can not exist in a socialist society because social conditions precipitating it had disappeared ; therefore , any cases were the result of atypical personal shortcomings ; prostitution was seen as a form of parasitic existence
Great Terror
Great Purge
Prostitution in the Soviet Union