 He returned to Kiev in 1926 only to find himself compelled to write poems adulatory of the Communist Party.In 1939, Hofstein became member of the Communist Party.Hofstein hailed the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948; however, in the same year, when Joseph Stalin withdrew his support for Israel, Hofstein was arrested, together with Kvitko, Markish and other members of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee, first transported to Moscow and then to Siberia.