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by William D. Hartung
by William A. Collins
The question is not whether House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid flinched in their negotiations with the Bush administration over the continuation of the Iraq occupation.
One of the “innovations” of the Soviet Red Army in the post-1917 struggle of the communists to consolidate the party’s control over the former tsarist realms was the introduction of political “commissars.” Their job was three-fold: prevent a counter-coup d’etat; “re-educate” former tsarist officers and enlisted men needed to fill the Red Army’s ranks so it could defend the new Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; and distribute Kremlin propaganda. Until 1942, commissars even had the power to countermand operational orders, undoubtedly as a hedge against any attempted coup. Reforms in the commissar system that year abolished the separate, parallel commissar chain-of-command established by Leon Trotsky and made the commissars “deputy commanders for political affairs.” When the USSR dissolved in 1991, this “commissar” position underwent another title change – to “deputy to the commander for educational work.”