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commissar in the former Soviet Union 1. an official of the Communist Party responsible for political education, esp in a military unit 2. (before 1946) the head of a government department How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| What does this flaccid achievement say about Moore, a legitimately important figure who has expanded the boundaries of a form that now commands respect from the cultural commissars at The New Yorker, university lit departments, and Hollywood studios on the hunt for their next franchise? Only the president himself could change the situation by demanding to hear a range of military views (without commissars at the shoulders of the generals). She sees the Bush administration's global democratic revolution/reconstruction project as kindred to the subsidized gangsterism that turned post-Soviet Russia into a huge sty of official corruption, with commissars, corporate criminals, academics, and internationalist bureaucrats all gorging themselves at the aid trough. |
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