None of them covered themselves in glory, apart from Gianni who has to his credit a year spent in the mountains where he was commissar of a Garibaldini detachment.
Indeed, there was a time when the mere suggestion that he might, one day, become a member of the House of Lords would have been laughed at all the way round the vast, now defunct, industrial estate at Trafford Park, Manchester, where the militant young shop steward - a member of the Communist party from the age of 23 - was commissar of all he surveyed.
Liashko said that he would be the "commissar" of the battalion but that it would take military orders from the army or the interior ministry.
Robert Shlegel, an MP of the ruling United Russia party who used to be federal commissar of the now-defunct pro-Putin youth movement Nashi, said Ukraine needed a government independent of the EU to promote economic growth.
Outside in the car was the commissar of labour, a senior member of Lenin's government.
Karadžić was political commissar of the Bosnian Serb project for a racially "pure" state during those years and, along with the verdict on his military counterpart, General Ratko Mladic, the outcome will be the highwater mark of the two-decade enterprise in what was to be groundbreaking international law enforcement by the international criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY).
The first are the commissars of the national security establishment, who perpetuate these "Washington rules" of global dominance.
Mao, at the time of the communists' departure, was not in control of events; Zhu De was the commander of the army, and Zhou Enlai was the political commissar of the party.
Tian Xiusi was named air force political commissar, while Zhu Fuxi is the new commissar of the Chengdu Military Region, which includes much of southwestern China and Tibet, CCTV said.
He was a Jew, born in Moscow, in 1920 — he died in 2011 — the son of a man who had been the Soviet Commissar of Justice under Lenin.
