Commissar (sometimes Kommissar) is an English transliteration of the Russian:комисса́р, which means commissary. In English, the transliteration "commissar" is used to refer specifically to Communist political officers, while administrative officers are translated to "commissary". In English, "Commissar" also refers to similar Communist officers in other countries, for example during the Spanish Civil War.
The same word комисса́р is used in Russian for both political and administrative officials. The title has been used in the Soviet Union and Russia from the time of Peter the Great.
History
Commissaries were used during the Provisional Government for regional heads of administration, but the term commissar is associated with a number of Cheka and military functions in Bolshevik and Soviet government military forces during the Russian Civil War (the White Army widely used the collective term "bolsheviks and commissars" for their opponents) and with the later terms People's Commissar (or narkom) for government ministers and political commissar in the military.
After making the film, Askoldov lost his job, was expelled from the Communist Party, charged with social parasitism, exiled from Moscow, and banned from working on feature films for life. He was told that the single copy of the film had been destroyed. Mordyukova and Bykov, major Soviet movie stars, had to plead with the authorities to spare him of even bigger charges. The film was shelved by the KGB for twenty years.
Poets and Madmen is the eleventh studio album by the heavy metal band Savatage, released in 2001. It was their last album before their 12-year hiatus, which lasted from 2002 to 2014. The album has a loose concept inspired by the career and death of journalist Kevin Carter, but has much less narrative in the lyrics than the previous two rock operas (Dead Winter Dead and The Wake of Magellan) penned by Paul O'Neill. Everything said in the album is fiction, except with regards to what is sung about Carter. The album is also noted as it is the only Savatage album to not feature a title song from the album, although the title was taken from lyrics to the track "Symmetry" from the band's 1994 album, Handful of Rain.
The album was the first since Streets: A Rock Opera in 1991 to feature the band's original vocalist Jon Oliva on lead vocals for all songs after the amicable departure of Zachary Stevens. It is also the first Savatage album to have guitarist Chris Caffery playing the majority of the guitar solos. This is partly due to the departure of Al Pitrelli, who left to join Megadeth prior to the album's release. However, Pitrelli was credited with the outro of "Stay With Me Awhile," the main solo of "Morphine Child," the main solo of "The Rumor," and the first part of the main solo and the outro of "Commissar". The United States bonus track "Shotgun Innocence" was originally a bonus track on the Japanese release of Edge of Thorns in 1993 and features Zachary Stevens on lead vocals, and the late Criss Oliva on guitar.
Do you see commissar The night is darker Do you think commissar Their dreams are starker Do you hear commissar The night is breathing Could it be commissar We should be leaving Now before the curtain Does comes crashing down Do you hear commissar The night is silent Do you think commissar It is defiance Do you see commissar The mob has faces Could it be commissar The dark embraces All as darkness will And in that dark we'll drown Cities, towns We've torn them down And all we've found Are relics in a cemetery But never fear I will stay near And to the dark I will be your emissary Knights on horseback Bishops pacing All are losing ground The pawn is now a queen He's moved across the board unseen The move is down I believe That we've intrigued for far too long But now I think the plot has ended A quick retreat Into the street Admit defeat And hope our moves will be defended Across their throats The blade does wander They die without a sound Who'd have thought we'd meet As bones beneath the dragons feet The wall is down
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THE ongoing factional fights within Zanu PF have reached a crescendo with party functionaries positioning themselves to either consolidate their power or oust incumbent officeholders before the expiry of their tenure ....
This is how it begins.. That bibulous rogue Sebastian Dangerfield, hero of J.P. Donleavy’s novel The Ginger Man, declares ... That butters no parsnips with the remorseless, grievance-seeking commissars of today’s Britain ... Those denounced included ... Tags ... 1.
That bibulous rogue Sebastian Dangerfield, hero of JP Donleavy’s novel The Ginger Man, declares ...Yesterday brought the latest in a long list of such stunts ... That butters no parsnips with the remorseless, grievance-seeking commissars of today’s Britain.
That bibulous rogue Sebastian Dangerfield, hero of JP Donleavy’s novel The Ginger Man, declares ...Yesterday brought the latest in a long list of such stunts ... That butters no parsnips with the remorseless, grievance-seeking commissars of today’s Britain.
Though it may not be well known abroad, China's state-owned merchant ships often carry a Chinese Communist Party political commissar amongst their crew ... The shipboard Party branch and the commissar have a role to play in preparing for war.
Though it may not be well known abroad, China's state-owned merchant ships often carry a Chinese Communist Party political commissar amongst their crew ... The shipboard Party branch and the commissar have a role to play in preparing for war.
