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On the far right, comrade was the standard form of address between members of the British Union of Fascists and featured widely in their publications and marching songs. In the United States, the word comrade carries a strong connotation with Communism, Marxism–Leninism, and the former Soviet Union.
Commissar (or sometimes Kommissar) is an English transliteration of the Russian комиссáр (komissar), which means 'commissary'. In English, the transliteration commissar often refers specifically to the political commissars of Soviet and Eastern-bloc armies or to the people's commissars (effectively government ministers), while administrative officers are called commissaries.
The Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union was the highest collegial body of executive and administrative authority of the Soviet Union from 1923 to 1946.. As the government of the Soviet Union, the Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union and the People's Commissariats led by it played a key role in such significant events for the country and society as the economic ...
The Council of People's Commissars in 1919. Title reads "Top Authority of the Russian Soviet Republic" The Council of People's Commissars (CPC) (Russian: Совет народных комиссаров (СНК), romanized: Sovet narodnykh kommissarov (SNK)), commonly known as the Sovnarkom (Совнарком), were the highest executive authorities of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist ...
All Soviet citizens were called on to fight, and soldiers who surrendered had failed in their duty. [188] To prevent retreats from Stalingrad, soldiers were urged to fight for the soil. [189] [187] Russian history was pressed into providing a heroic past and patriotic symbols, although selectively, for instance praising men as state builders. [190]
After the Sino-Soviet division, the Chinese refused to embrace their Soviet counterparts or to address them as "comrade". [9] When Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev tried to embrace Chinese Communist Party chairman Mao Zedong on a visit to Beijing in 1959, Mao stepped back to avoid the embrace and offered a handshake instead. [10]
Comrade Stalin requested the American Ambassador (Laurence Steinhardt) and the British Ambassador (Sir Stafford Cripps) to convey to President Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill respectively the heartfelt thanks of the peoples of the Soviet Union and of the Soviet Government for their readiness to aid the U.S.S.R. in its war of liberation against ...
The founder and leader of the Bolsheviks, Lenin led the October Revolution which established the world's first socialist state. His government won the Russian Civil War and consolidated power in a one-party state under the Communist Party. Ideologically a Marxist, his developments to the ideology are called Leninism.