Word: commissar
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...corridor. Now he was bundled up in his black overcoat with the curly black fur collar and the cylindrical black fur hat. He gave us a grin and a sort of salute. Then, accompanied by a general, he moved on down the hall, as round and jolly a commissar as ever stoked the fires or marshaled the might of international Communism...
...strange sounds from the Communist jungle make a gruesome and highly revealing composition. The book gives, perhaps for the first time, a complete account of a Communist education from grade school to commissar level...
Time was when Russia's light-fingered lady discus thrower, Nina Ponomaryeva, could lift a couple of hats from a London department store (TIME, Sept. 10, 1956) and rate hardly a slap on the wrist from her commissar chaperons. Nina was needed for the Olympics. But the party line has changed. Last week Czechoslovakia's table-tennis champion, Ivan Andreadis, was "temporarily disqualified" from the national team for "unsporting behavior." His bourgeois crime: Ivan "forgot" to report a large hunk of his earnings...
...carried his political housewifery into the army. The Red army newspaper published word that* Colonel General F. I. Golikov, 57, a World War II commander (Stalingrad, Kharkov) who served most recently as chief of Moscow's Armored Forces Academy, had been named the army's chief ) political commissar. Golikov replaced Colonel General Alexei Zheltov, a political general who held the post when Marshal Zhukov was dismissed as army chief last summer on charges of interfering with the ideological training of officers. (Zheltov is remembered as the Soviet deputy high commissioner in occupied Austria who remarked of his soldiers...
Last week the tension between writer and commissar stretched even tighter. The party decided to turn the independent-minded daily Sztandar Mlodych (Standard of Youth) into a house organ for the Communists' discredited Union of Socialist Youth Association. Then Stalinist Author Leon Kruczkowski, chairman of the party's Cultural Commission, bluntly warned the press that censorship will become an even stronger "weapon of cultural policy...