The Hujum Campaign (meaning “attack”) was an attack on veils worn by Muslim women between 1927-1929. This campaign started in Uzbekistan, the most conservative part of Central Asia, and was led by the Zhenotdel, the women’s department of the Soviet Union. The Soviets felt that they had to liberate women in Central Asia to fix what they saw as a backwards society. To the Soviets, casting off the veil would be the same as casting off the rules of the past, creating new opportunities for women and bringing in new members of the Communist party. However, what began as the Hujum “attack” on the veil as a symbol of female repression, resulted in thousands of women being victims to violence and even death. Uzbek women were worse off due to the severe violence they faced as a direct cause of the Hujum campaign, and they did not see positive results until years later. Women who unveiled had to live in fear for their life, whether in the form of violence from strangers or relatives. This research uses primary accounts from women who participated in and experienced the Hujum campaign, as well as accounts from the Soviet government itself. It also uses secondary sources which analyzed the Hujum campaign and its outcomes.