Sentence examples for chief commissar from inspiring English sources

Deng also acted as chief commissar of the communists' Second Field Army during the Chinese Civil War (1947 49).

"The gate commissar, on inspection of the gate, said the gate was fine, the start commissar said he felt the release gate was fine, so the chief commissar ruled that there wasn't a mishap," he explained.

André Marty, the chief commissar of the International Brigades based at Albacete, was also an executor of the Great Purge in Spain.

This policy was also endorsed by the Soviet chief diplomat in Germany, Vladimir Semyonov, the future Chief Commissar of the USSR in Germany, who already in January 1948 correspondingly stated, that SMAD orders, (which accompanied DWK orders,) should have merely the purpose to back the authority of the German orders.

It counts against him that he once served as Mr Museveni's personal surgeon and chief political commissar.

Ye was the chief political commissar in Guangdong province in the early 1950s and was also mayor of Guangzhou Cantonn) at this time.

At the end of the war in Europe, Brezhnev was chief political commissar of the 4th Ukrainian Front, which entered Prague in May 1945, after the German surrender.

Hannity has in the past crowned Obama the "Commissar in Chief," renamed America the "United States of France," and claimed that, "America is moving from a free-market economy to a Socialist economy".

After his arrival in April 1937, he joined the XI International Brigade and participated in the civil war as political commissar, beginning in May 1937, then as chief of staff and finally commander of the brigade, until March 1938, when he was injured.

In August 1942 Zhukov was named deputy commissar of defense and first deputy commander in chief of Soviet armed forces.

After the defeat of Germany, Konev became supreme commissar for Austria (1945), succeeded Zhukov as commander in chief of Soviet ground forces (1946 50), and thereafter held various military posts on the ministerial level, including commander in chief of the Warsaw Pact forces (1955 60).