Edited sentence: By Soviet definition, national cultures were to be "socialist by content and national by form", to be used to promote the official aims and values of the state.In practice, Russian national culture and language were promoted, especially during and after World War II, while Ukrainian, Georgian, Armenian, Lithuanian, Jewish (see Yevsektsiya) and other national movements and cultures were suppressed and their leaders purged.Minority national cultures were not completely abolished in the Soviet Union's official Marxist-Leninist ideology