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Soviet Navy Political Officer or Commissar
Posted: Sat Sep 09, 2017 4:13 am
by The End
Re: Soviet Navy Political Officer or Commissar
Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2017 4:41 am
by Strelnikov
Yep, it was a position within the Soviet military most people didn't get thanks to movies like
Doctor Zhivago and
The Hunt for Red October; the unit commander and the
politruk or the ship captain and the
zampolit have to work together or cohesion is lost - the guy is not a spy for the Party.
Re: Soviet Navy Political Officer or Commissar
Posted: Sun Sep 10, 2017 6:13 am
by sashi
I suppose there are people playing these roles to keep moral up on the decks of the wikipoppet, too. This doc from the CTO is interesting:
http://www.heritage.org/defense/report/ ... -new-usdreas is this discussion Doug Weller started at the Talk:JimboWales drama-board (and which the page-owner quickly archived):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk ... cial_media