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political commissars were appointed by the Communist Party to military units for the purpose of direct political propaganda, and to ensure that Party decisions were implemented. In this system, each unit had a political officer who was not responsible to the normal military chain of command, but instead answered to a separate chain of command within the Communist Party . The purpose of such a system is to ensure the loyalty of army commanders, and to prevent a possible Coup D'etat . The political commissar had the authority to override any decision of the military officers, and to remove them from command if necessary. Therefore, sometimes the commissar usurped the functions of a regular military commander, but that was almost never necessary — the mere presence of a commissar usually meant that military commanders would follow their directives, and the day-to-day duties of the political commissar generally involved only propaganda work and boosting the morale of the troops. After in 1991 . Now it is called "Заместитель командира по воспитательной работе", "deputy of the commander for educational work", but is still referred to as zampolit quite often. During the Russian Civil War , Joseph Stalin was the political commissar of the Western Front against the White Army forces of Baron Wrangel . Nikita Khrushchev was a political commissar at the Battle Of Stalingrad and was the senior political officer in the south of the Soviet Union throughout the Great Patriotic War . On November 8 , 1975 , the Soviet Navy Frigate '' Storozhevoy '' Mutinied , which at the time the West believed was an attempt to defect from Latvia to the Swedish island of Gotland . The mutiny was led by the ship's political officer, Captain Valery Sablin . MILITARY OF CHINA The position of political commissar has also existed and still exists in the People's Liberation Army of China . Usually, the political commissar is a uniformed military officer, although this position has been used to give civilian party officials some experience with the military. The political commissar was head of a party cell within the military; however, military membership in the party has been restricted to the lower ranks since the 1980s . Today the political commissar is largely responsible for administrative tasks such as civilian relations. FICTION In the '' Discworld '' novel '' Monstrous Regiment '', 'Corporal' Strappi is a 'political,' an officer inserted into the rank-and-file in order to ferret out dissention in the ranks. In the universe of Warhammer 40,000 , Commissars are a special officer of the Imperial Guard , designed to maintain the morale of the troops on their massive campaigns, often in the face of staggering casualties. A notable example is Colonel-Commissar Ibram Gaunt , character in the '' Gaunt's Ghosts '' series of novels by Dan Abnett . EXTERNAL LINKS |