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...special group, without counterparts in the West, are the estimated 100,000 zampolit, or political officers. Assigned to every unit down to the company level, they are responsible for indoctrinating the troops with Communist Party ideology. They give lectures on patriotic duties, recite editorials from the Soviet press, stage amateur theatricals and lead excursions to local war memorials and battlegrounds. One other important task: reporting on the political reliability of their fellow officers and the enlisted...
...discipline and ideological indoctrination than his civilian brothers at home. "Recreation time" is filled with Communist Party lectures, propagandistic books and films. TV shows visible in foreign ports are often banned as "corrupting." Ashore or at sea, the sailors' activities are closely watched by the ship's zampolit (political officer), a combination cheerleader, disciplinarian and father-confessor. He is the deputy of the ship's captain, with full authority to punish any wayward salt...
...stiff note of protest, explained afterwards: "I had to write that. That's just a formality. What I really want to know is, where do you get men like that captain?" At public dinners Vishinsky ordered Zhukov about, and Zhukov dutifully read speeches handed to him by Zampolit officers. He did not gag when Stalin took credit for the great victories. The Zampolit organization had grown to huge proportions and was again the terror of the Red army. Into East Germany came Commissar Serov, to superintend the liquidation of dissidents, the dismantling of factories and museums, the kidnaping...
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