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commissar

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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


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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).
In September 1943, the Deputy of the People's Defense Commissar, Marshal of the Soviet Union A.
 
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