political commissar

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an official of the Communist Party who was assigned to teach party principles to a military unit

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Stepping menacingly in the direction of the voice, the Politruk snapped, "I'll get your food ration stopped if I am interrupted again.

Freedom trek: fleeing the Soviet Gulag, Slavomir Rawicz and six comrades--armed with almost nothing except an insatiable hunger for freedom--crossed an entire continent on foot

Slutsky, a member of the Communist Party and of the Soviet Writers Union, who served in the war as a politruk or political officer, was no dissident, though a great deal of what he wrote "for his desk drawer" and of what was published after his death was in fact very critical of the Soviet regime.

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Enchmen's highest rank in the Civil War military was that of Senior Politruk, that is, a political officer (Avtobiografiia).

During World War II, Enchmen served in the Red Army as a Senior Politruk, but was discharged in 1942 for reasons of health (Avtobiografiia).

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