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commissar

noun

  1. the head of any of the former commissariats in the U.S.S.R.: in 1946, title changed to minister
  2. a representative of the government or communist party in the U.S.S.R., responsible for political orientation, esp. in a military unit

See commissar in American Heritage Dictionary 4

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