Word: commissar
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...saying, without Stalin there would have been no intimate, brooding string quartets, no enigmatic, valedictory Fifteenth Symphony. By giving Shostakovich something to hate and fear, Stalin turned him into a great composer. The symphonies dedicated to the state and the choral potboilers like The Vow of the People's Commissar were a small price...
...COMMISSAR. The liberation of this long-banned Soviet-made parable about a pregnant army officer is glasnost's greatest gift to movies...
...COMMISSAR. A tough officer of the Soviet army gets pregnant and, in the company of a Jewish family, finds humanity. Banned for 20 years, this Soviet- made parable is glasnost's greatest gift to movies...
...lodged formal protests, but there have been no penetrations this year." One of his Soviet counterparts, General Oleg Ilin, confirms that view. "We have reduced our strength in this region and ceased all training maneuvers on the border," he says. Ilin is the No. 2 political officer, or commissar, attached to the Far Eastern military district, which has its headquarters near Khabarovsk, on the banks of the Amur River, another stretch of contested border...
...COMMISSAR. A tough officer of the Soviet Army gets pregnant and, in the company of a Jewish family, finds humanity. This brave, Soviet-made parable was banned for 20 years. Its liberation is glasnost's greatest gift to movies...