commissar
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
commissar /ˌkɒmɪˈsɑː/
▶noun a Communist official, especially in Soviet Russia or China, responsible for political education.
■ a head of a government department in the Soviet Union before 1946.
– origin early 20th cent.: from Russ. komissar, from Fr. commissaire.
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