Category
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political commissar
special military rank in some countries responsible for ideological education and ensuring political control of the military
Larisa Reisner
Russian writer, editor (1895–1926)
26 Baku Commissars
Bolshevik and Left SR members of the 1918 Baku Commune
war commissar
military official
Anna Nikandrova
Hero of the Soviet Union (1921-1944)
Refat Mustafaev
Crimean Tatar communist secretary and partisan leader
commissar
Commissar (or sometimes Kommissar) is an English transliteration of the Russian (komissar), which means 'commissary'. In English, the transliteration commissar often refers specifically to the political commissars of Soviet and Eastern-bloc armies or to the people's commissars (effectively government ministers), while administrative officers are called commissaries.
Dumitru Petrescu
Romanian politician