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There are two well established titles: '' People's Commissar '' (government) and '' Political Commissar '' (military). The term derives from a similar term in , respectively. It is the use by the French revolutionary government which gave the idea to the Russian one. FICTION One of Russian author Vasily Grossman 's early stories, ''In the town of Berdichev'', was made into a 1967 movie, '' Commissar '', by the Soviet director Aleksandr Askoldov . Both tell the story of a woman commissar in a Red Army cavalry unit during the Russian Civil War , who leaves her unit when she becomes pregnant and stays with a poor tailor's family in the town of Berdichev . The movie is famous for having been heavily censored by the Soviet government's film agency Goskino , and was in fact not released until 1988. The term Commissar is also used in the fictional world of Warhammer 40,000 to represent a political field officer in the regiments of the fictitious imperial guard. The imperial Commissar, as described by many Warhammer novelists, is given complete jurisdiction to judge the actions of any trooper or officer of a rank junior to his own and to act accordingly. Among miscreant soldiers, a Commissar's wrath is as frequent a cause of fatality as the enemy. An imperial Commissar's word is immutable law and his visage is one of grim authority that is to be respected and rightly feared. |