Commissar in A Sentence

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    Each battalion had a political commissar, and the companies had, as we have said, political delegates.

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    Wolff now assumed command of the battalion and John Gates became battalion commissar.

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    He is appointed the commissar of the American Government in the Baltic Provinces of Russia.

    4

    I believe that my age and appearance could well appear that I was a Russian commissar or something.

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    Stalin -- ironically the Bolshevik's first commissar of nationalities -- was more guilty than most of reviving old tsarist ways.

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    He was appointed ambassador to the U.S., 1941-43, and deputy commissar of foreign affairs, 1943-46.