I figured Strelnikov might be interested in this.
https://warisboring.com/so-you-want-to- ... l-officer/
Soviet Navy Political Officer or Commissar
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Soviet Navy Political Officer or Commissar
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Re: Soviet Navy Political Officer or Commissar
The End wrote:I figured Strelnikov might be interested in this.
https://warisboring.com/so-you-want-to- ... l-officer/
Yep, it was a position within the Soviet military most people didn't get thanks to movies like Doctor Zhivago and The Hunt for Red October; the unit commander and the politruk or the ship captain and the zampolit have to work together or cohesion is lost - the guy is not a spy for the Party.
Still "Globally Banned" on Wikipedia for the high crime of journalism.
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Re: Soviet Navy Political Officer or Commissar
I suppose there are people playing these roles to keep moral up on the decks of the wikipoppet, too. This doc from the CTO is interesting: http://www.heritage.org/defense/report/ ... -new-usdre
as is this discussion Doug Weller started at the Talk:JimboWales drama-board (and which the page-owner quickly archived):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk ... cial_media
as is this discussion Doug Weller started at the Talk:JimboWales drama-board (and which the page-owner quickly archived):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk ... cial_media