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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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The Soviet Party, the KGB, and the armed forces with their political commissars remain intact.
While serving in the army, the Yeshiva students are nominally under the army chain of command but in practice are also subject to their rabbis, whose position is reminiscent of the political commissars of the Red Army.
Mechlis, the political commissar, shouted in his face that now was the moment to break with the Pope.
 
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