Most of his poetry is about romance , nature , feelings . Despite this , he soon became one of the slandered and criticized poets in the Union of Soviet Azerbaijani Writers , and soon afterwards , Mushfig was arrested and executed by Soviet authorities at the age of 30 during the Stalinist purges in the USSR . In 1956 , he was exonerated posthumously . Nikita Khrushchev era of de-stalinization has resulted in Mushfig 's poetry being famous in Azerbaijani society
Stalinist purges
Great Purge
Mikayil Mushfig