Political commissar
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In the military, a political commissar or political officer is a supervisory officer responsible for the political education and organization of the unit to which they are assigned, with the intention
Kombat, a photo of a Soviet political commissar of the 220th Infantry Regiment calling soldiers to an assault, Eastern Front, in Soviet Ukraine, 12 July 1942
The death of the Political Commissar, 1928 propaganda painting by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin
Finnish propaganda poster (1939–1940) aimed at Red Army soldiers: "Politruk: worse than the enemy. He shoots you in the back!"
Leonid Brezhnev (right) in the rank of commissar giving a Communist Party membership card to a soldier (1942)
Leonid Brezhnev
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Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev was a Soviet politician who served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 until his death in 1982. He also held office as Chairman of the Pres
Political commissar
…the enemy. He shoots you in the back!" Later commissars in the Eastern bloc could exercise broader roles in social engineering. In the Soviet Union Leonid Brezhnev (right) in the rank of commissar giving a Communist Party membership card to a soldier (1942) In the Red Army (1918–1946) and the Soviet Army (1946–1991…
Official portrait, 1972
Brezhnev (right) speaks with Nikita Khrushchev, 23 April 1943
Brezhnev in 1950
Nikita Khrushchev, the leader of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and Brezhnev's main patron