Commissar

Commissar is the English transliteration of an official title (Russian: комисса́р) used in Russia after the Bolshevik revolution. The title was mostly associated with a number of Cheka and military functions in many Bolshevik and Soviet government military forces during the Russian Civil War; the White Army widely used the collective term bolsheviks and commissars for their opponents. After that, it was mostly used for People's Commissar (or nark... more
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