Meanings of political commissar in English

There was in Madrid an English writer, who had become a political commissar.

The only man to treat him as a man is the political commissar.

M23 political commissar Colonel Vianney Kazarama also denied the rebels received any support from Rwanda.

He banished the professor who was teaching me and replaced him with a political commissar.

Xi had a parallel career as a political commissar in units of the PLA and the party's paramilitary security force.

The commander of the battalion, Major Denischenko, rode in front of the convoy in a Soviet army jeep, together with his political commissar.

Some became propagandists, some ambassadors, many became political commissars and soldiers.

Reports from local political commissars.

He fought in the Rhodesian bush war, rising to the rank of Political Commissar in the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA).

Ludendorff's scheme for a politicized army was one of the many ideas which Lenin enthusiastically adopted, appointing political commissars down to battalion level.

(D) The police, political commissars, agents, spies, etc.

It is a State-controlled militia co-ordinated by political commissars and trained to operate in concert with the People's Liberation Army (PLA).