Cika wannan jumla:
Girgizar kasa ta Ashgabat ta 1948 ta lalata ginin sosai kuma ta sa ba shi da aminci; ruwan sama mai yawa na shekaru masu zuwa ya raunana ginin. An rushe shi a 1963 kuma an canza shafin zuwa wurin shakatawa na jama'a. Da Soviet ta hana addini, Bahá'ís, suna bin ƙa'idodinsu na biyayya ga gwamnati ta shari'a, suka yi watsi da ikonta kuma aka mallaki dukiyarta. A shekara ta 1938, tare da NKVD (yan sandan asirin Soviet) da kuma manufofin zalunci na addini an tura yawancin Baha'is zuwa kurkuku da sansani ko kuma ƙasashen waje; Baha'i al'ummomi a cikin birane 38 sun daina wanzuwa. A game da Ashgabat, majiyoyin Bahá'í sun nuna a ranar 5 ga Fabrairu an kama membobin majalisar, shugabannin al'umma da wasu manyan membobin al'umma zuwa jimillar mutane 500, an bincika gidaje kuma an kwace dukkan bayanan da wallafe-wallafe (da'awar cewa suna aiki ne don amfanin baƙi), kuma wani lokacin ana tilasta musu su haƙa kaburburansu a matsayin wani ɓangare na tambayoyin. An yi imanin cewa wata mata ta ƙone kanta kuma ta mutu daga baya a asibiti. An kori mata da yara da yawa zuwa Iran. A shekara ta 1953 Baha'is sun fara ƙaura zuwa Jamhuriyar Soviet a Asiya, bayan shugaban addinin a lokacin, Shoghi Effendi, ya fara shirin da ake kira Crusade na Shekaru Goma. Baha'is da suka koma Turkmenistan sun sami wasu Baha'is da ke zaune a can duk da cewa addinin ya kasance ba tare da tsari ba. A lokacin yakin basasa na 1978-9 a Afghanistan wasu Baha'is sun gudu zuwa Turkmenistan.