The Hujum was a movement for Central Asian Muslims and Caucasus in order to more easily integrate them into soviet life and the workforce. Using equality laws, literacy programs, and bringing women into the labor force, the Communist Party leadership in Moscow launched the campaign. The main way of supporting the campaign became unveiling of the women’s paranji’s, and although this was meant to be a nonviolent practice, it quickly took a turn. Women who unveiled and showed support were in danger of being assaulted or killed. Rabhar-OI said, “And there was that actress. She was Halima’s understudy. Her husband bit off her nose, just like that”(pg. 159) this was meant to force the woman put her paranji back on. Would you take a risk the way these women did for something you cared about? What would you do if your spouse disagreed?
