sentences:  Alakbar was among the first to be arrested in what would later be termed as Stalin's Repression, in which 70,000 Azerbaijanis were executed or exiled along with hundreds of thousands of other citizens throughout the USSR.His friend was accused of advocating "pan-Turkish ideas," and Alakbar was deemed guilty by mere association.When Alakbar was thrown into prison, he didn't even know what he was being accused of or why.