The Great Purge (1937-1938) was a great hit on Armenian culture. Many authors, such as Yeghishe Charents and Aksel Bakunts were rounded up and executed on the command of Joseph Stalin. The conveying of many Armenian values, culture, and ideas was terminated. Basically, all that was created had to be with reference to communist principles and its spread.
Many Armenians were exiled to Siberia to work in gulags, particularly those who came to reside from abroad but were considered suspicious by the state.
The gulags (labor camps) received large quantities of laborers, people who did not abide by the rules imposed on them. However, the functioning of these gulags contributed largely to the growth of the number of factories and other infrastructure in the Soviet Union.