Sentence examples for commissar general from inspiring English sources

As general secretary of the Central Military Commission and the army's political commissar, General Yang mobilized troops whose gunfire would claim hundreds if not thousands of lives.

Verdugo, supported by the Albanian captain Nicolao Basta and the Spanish Evangelista de las Cuevas, Commissar General of the cavalry, managed to restore the order in the Spanish ranks.

But Hu offended the "party dinosaurs" - the commissars and generals of the communist revolution - and was sacked in 1987.

The House of Government, as it was initially called, was a mishmash of the blocky geometry of Constructivism and the soaring pomposity of neoclassicism, and had five hundred and five apartments that housed the Soviet Union's governing élite — commissars and Red Army generals and vaunted Marxist scholars.

General Goering, as commissar for the four-year plan, has given orders for the collection of human hair throughout the Reich.

But Stalin (who on May 6 , 1941 became chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, in addition to his general secretaryship of the Central Committee) concluded that a Nazi invasion might be avoided; he felt that in any case an invasion would certainly not be possible in 1941.

The 2nd Corps was led by Major-General Nguyen Huu An, with Major-General Le Linh as Political Commissar.

According to the evidence of A. P. Rosenholtz, Foreign Trade Commissar, Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky and seven other generals executed last June had planned to take over the Kremlin on May Day , 1937

During what was known in the Soviet Union as the Great Patriotic War (Eastern Front of World War II), Khrushchev was again a commissar, serving as an intermediary between Stalin and his generals.

During World War II Brezhnev served as a political commissar in the Red Army, advancing in rank until he became a major general (1943) and head of the political commissars on the Ukrainian front.

It was at this meeting that the writer was elected president of the party; Simon Muzenda, vice-president; Edgar Tekere, secretary-general; Josiah Tongogara, secretary of defense; Meya Urimbo, national political commissar; Teurai Ropa, secretary of women's affairs; and several others to various positions.