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The Political Officer

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The Political Officer	comment	The Political Officer is an officer attached to a unit, usually outside the regular chain of command, who ensures that the regular soldiers and officers obey orders and conform to the government's ideology. Theoretically this is a means of 'civilian' control over the military, but in practice, the focus is on keeping the military loyal to the government and its principles — even at the people's expense. Such posts usually exist because the Government or the State Sec want a way of curbing the military's power and promoting their own agenda. If the former, it is because the military is a threat to the legitimate government and so the political officers are "good guys" for keeping them in line. However, the latter depiction is far more common. In this portrayal, the Government and/or the State Sec view the military as a threat to their own power and so (team up to) use the Political Officers to keep it in line, just as in the Real Life three-way power struggle between the Party/Government, State Sec, and Military in the USSR and the two-way struggle between the Party/Government and the Military in the PRC. In day-to-day affairs the Political Officer roots out dissenters and has them re-educated or executed, perhaps doubling as a member of the Secret Police or Culture Police. For them to survive in their line of work the collective penalties for fragging them have to be so severe that no matter how callous, unpopular, or evil the officer is when this trope is played negatively, no-one ever dares to make them have an "accident". This type of fictional character is overwhelmingly based on the Real Life example of Political Officers in the Soviet Union, although it also tends to draw on the SS and the Nazis as well. More often than not they are amalgams of real Political Officers and NKVD (counterintelligence) officers. The actual Soviet Political Officer is a stock character in fictional portrayals of the Soviet-German War and Cold War era. His job was to ensure that the regular soldiers and officers followed the orders of the Party leadership in Moscow, basically a tool for the Communist Party to limit the military's independence (the NKVD having similar oversight of the Party and Military). Stereotypically this character is unconcerned with the difficulties the unit faces in actual combat, and will insist on slavish adherence to orders no matter the impracticality, pointlessness, or cost of doing so. In Real Life, junior party leaders conscripted as Commissars and Officers (people often applied for re-assignment between the two) played a crucial role in the first months of World War II. With virtually the entire peacetime Army wiped out in the first three months, they became the backbone of the new Army. Commissars were often observer officers with veto power over decisions made by their attached units, although they did on occasion get into frontline combat. On the frontline, Commissars were meant to inspire troops through bravery and heroism- and many did. Even before the War's outbreak, the German Army passed regulations mandating Communist party leaders' execution upon capture, this consequently covering many officers and all Commissars. The famous notion of commissars being empowered to shoot cowards stems from Stalin's 28/7/1942 'No Retreat' Order issued in response to the German 1942 Summer Blau Offensive to take the Caucusus, which forbade any military unit from retreating without orders (which in that operation were subsequently given by Operational-level commanders acting against Moscow's impractical orders to launch counter-offensives instead, to the Germans' dismay). Though neutered in effectiveness through losses note Dedicated and often rather young Communists tended to gravitate to the job, and if anything were a little too eager to 'Repel The Fascist Invader'. This cycle was self-perpetuating, with the losses requiring constant replacement and official nerfing by the end of the warnote The probably most infamous part of the order, mandating that rearguard units be posted behind the frontline to shoot retreating men, was withdrawn after three months due to commanders resenting that they were forced to make desperately needed manpower not fight the enemy. In any event, the shooting of Red Army soldiers in this case was relatively rare - you were far more likely (90%+) to end up Trading Bars for Stripes in a penal unit.. Civilian women in Germany were advised to yell 'Commissar' when facing rape by Soviet soldiers because commissars would arrive and either stop the soldier or (in some cases) execute them. There is little doubt that Stalin's February 1945 orders mandating decent treatment of civilians stemmed from concerns about national prestige and foreign relations, not altruism, but it helped codify the notion that commissars were given to shooting their own soldiers. Note that this is the Western depiction. In Soviet fiction, the political officers often were stern but just, inspiring and actually caring, and performed death-defying feats of heroism to inspire similar acts of bravery in soldiers, based on the fact that the Political Officers as an institution were abolished in 1943, and had to continue as common line officers. An alternative Soviet depiction from much later years is a lazy useless paper-pusher who never does anything useful and torments other officers with filling out countless forms and boring lectures about "political situation". Often wears a Commissar Cap. See also The Inquisitor General.
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The Political Officer / int_15121102	comment	K-19: The Widowmaker, being set aboard the Soviet Union's first nuclear submarine, has a political officer whose function is not only to monitor the officers and crew but to assist in the launch of the boat's nuclear weapons and to provide periodic "lessons" in the evils of capitalism, reminding the crew "Why We Fight".
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The Political Officer / int_1e85c6d6	comment	According to Battalion Wars II's unit dossiers, a Tundran battleship's political officer is also its head cook. Naturally, his having control over the quality of the food means the sailors never step out of line.
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The Political Officer / int_247422c7	comment	Honor Harrington: The People's Commissioners of Haven's second regime fit this to a tee. Their dampening effect on the competence of "elitist, recidivist" officers (who were liable to get shot, along with their entire extended families, for the slightest imagined disloyalty or failure in battle-based on the French Revolution) was half the reason Manticore won that war. Most of the political officers that have significant time on screen, however, tend to work with their assigned personnel instead of against them, as generally Reasonable Authority Figures. Some even go beyond that, actively concealing outright treasonous activities and planning, including ultimately overthrowing the Committee for Public Safety and restoring the original Republic of Haven. Even further beyond that, some of the commissioners not only become friends of the officers they are supposed to oversee but, in the most famous case, become lovers — and one of the most touching love stories of the whole series, to boot.
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The Political Officer / int_2b102a2	comment	Once the Second Russian Civil War kicks off in The Death of Russia, the communist faction is quickly taken over by the Stalin idolizing Viktor Anpilov. One of his many decrees meant to recreate Stalin's heyday is bringing back Commissars to accompany troops in the field to maintain discipline, with the only Commissar the timeline focuses on being all but stated to be a certain someone modern readers would know very well.
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The Political Officer / int_305df639	comment	71: Into the Fire has one of these on the North Korean side, the Commissar who spends most of the film berating the film's main villain, North Korean General Pak. Near the end of the film, the Commissar finally outsteps his boundary and earns a magazine of lead into his guts from Pak.
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The Political Officer / int_31a48eed	comment	The Outer Limits (1995): In "Abaddon", Gordon Knight is assigned to the interplanetary hauling vehicle Pequod as the North American Corporation's representative, serving the same function as a political officer.
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The Political Officer / int_32926c5b	comment	Tarkin's Fist: One of the official jobs of the Imperial Security Bureau. That the four fleets of Tarkin's Fist have their official ISB contingents purged is the first sign to deep cover ISB agent Eritech that something is seriously wrong. In an attempt to assert more control over the Imperial military to pave the way for his coming coup, Moff Seco appoints Imperial Commissars to army units to ensure their loyalty. Their incompetence leads many of the clones serving in the Imperial military to desert.
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The Political Officer / int_367f632a	comment	The Dawn of War: Winter Assault tutorial specifically mentions that the Guardsmen are simple humans fighting against the worst monstrosities of the universe, hence why they break so easily. Attaching a commissar to a squad however makes that squad near-immune to morale: not even a flamethrower will make them run. If they do break anyway, the commissar has the ability of executing a random soldier to instantly restore squad morale and increase firing rate for all nearby squads. And they happen to be awesome melee fighters to boot... but only three can be deployed at a time. Two commissars in the last two expansions are specifically mentioned to be watching the Governor-General for signs of weakening resolve. Taken to ridiculous extremes in the second game. At max experience level, shooting one soldier will make your entire army do twice as much damage, run faster than a land speeder, and be completely invulnerable to all forms of damage. And there is a trait that makes execute cool down less than its duration.
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The Political Officer / int_36ee2abe	comment	The Loyalty Officer in Paranoia. Their loyalty is directly to Friend Computer, not the Team Leader. (Although the nature of Paranoia is such that neither of them are likely to be all that loyal.) Things get particularly entertaining if they're secretly a member of a particularly treasonous secret society, or Friend Computer reassigns the Mandatory Bonus Duties in the middle of the mission.
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The Political Officer / int_38cf90bd	comment	An episode of Seven Days involves a Russian submarine testing out a new sonar. The crew is surprised when a political officer is assigned to the boat, considering that a democratic government shouldn't need them. The guy is especially critical of a young sonar technician for the latter's preference of "American rock music" (apparently, no one told the guy the Cold War was over). He later forces the captain to keep the sonar focused on a foreign ship instead of using it to map the ocean floor, resulting in the sub hitting a reef and causing a reactor breach. As per protocol, the captain wishes to scuttle the boat, sacrificing the crew. However, the political officer and several of his men get guns and force the captain to surface, shooting the young sonar technician for questioning the legality of their actions. This causes massive irradiation of the surrounding area, and the political officer claims it was the captain who chose to surface, and that he tried to object. When the captain tries to claim his innocence, he is brutally beaten and taken away. Naturally, when Parker goes back to fix the situation, his main problem is this Jerkass.
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The Political Officer / int_3c6e7f9f	comment	In Cross Ange, Emma Bronson is in charge of monitoring the attitudes of the Normas on the Arsenal island so they don't get any funny ideas about turning their attention to the other lands. In fact, she is the only non-Norma permanently stationed on the island. She also proves utterly incompetent at her job, failing to spot and report a massive conspiracy to rebel festering right under her nose. After being left to die when Arzenal is set to be exterminated, she is saved by that very rebellion and taken aboard the submarine, which leads to an immediate about face.
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The Political Officer / int_3cf58b7f	comment	SS Corporal Gunther in Hornets' Nest, who has been assigned to keep an eye on the outspoken and unpredictable Captain von Hecht. Nobody cares when he gets his neck broken by the hero.
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The Political Officer / int_454d0351	comment	The Southern Republic of Heavy Gear has them, in addition to an entire deep cover State Sec that serves some of the same duties.
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The Political Officer / int_4c2f51af	comment	Beast Wars: Uprising: On the rare occasion a Cybertronian ship goes off-planet, they have a political officer to "keep an eye" on the Maximal and Predacon crews. As a show of just how much The Builders trust their successors, said officers are either Autobot or Decepticon. The only one seen, Synapse, manages to be the worst kind, murdering two members of the crew on the possibility they might side with a resistance movement they didn't even know about, then trying to murder them all over the objections of his superior.
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The Political Officer / int_4f46b380	comment	One is, naturally, present aboard the flagship of the Soviet fleet in X-Men: First Class (he's the guy the captain calls "zampolit", which is short for "zamestitel' komandira po politicheskoy chasti" — "commander's deputy for political matters"). He ends up being mind-controlled by Charles to fire a missile at the Soviet transport ship to prevent the Americans from starting World War III. The captain commends him for his actions and immediately has him arrested, which the sailors do gladly.
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The Political Officer / int_50fc52ad	comment	Utterly mocked in Sturmtruppen: set during World War II with a German battalion, a recurring character is Galeazzo Musolesi, an Italian political officer of immense high ranknote His introduction describes him as a Federale. In the Fascist Party hierarchy, that means he's either the Federal Secretary reporting directly to Mussolini himself or one of his deputies... But being Italian he's a guest with no real authority, and being a coward and Legally Dead]] reduces his prestige and privileges and forces him to start some ridiculous antics he doesn't starve again (as it happened when he was declared dead) and put together some money.
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The Political Officer / int_538ba773	comment	In The Machineries of Empire, every Hexarchate moth has a Doctrine officer (or at least had in Jedao's times) to make sure there's no heresy brewing among the crew.
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The Political Officer / int_58d70efc	comment	Advanced Squad Leader allows the Russians (and a few other countries by scenario special rule) to have commissars until late in 1942. Said leaders raise the morale and improve rallying for any troops they are stacked with. But any squad that does NOT rally is lowered in quality.
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The Political Officer / int_60156176	comment	Barrayar has political officers in the early parts of the Vorkosigan Saga. Admiral Aral Vorkosigan notoriously murdered his own particularly scheming one with his bare hands on his flag bridge during the invasion of Komarr, and only dodged serious consequences (other than a demotion to Captain) due to his bloodline. Later, another political officer tries to murder him in return. It is implied that while the outcry was intentionally high, he was demoted only to keep the official face on the thing, political officers being a rather new institution and just another tool in the Ezar's box.
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The Political Officer / int_6535218b	comment	In Red Storm Rising, we see a few political officers. They are almost invariably incompetent — when the Soviet forces in Iceland are about to be mauled by an Anglo-American task force and need to surrender, General Andreyev gets rid of his political officer by seizing on a throwaway remark the zampolit made about "true courage" by giving him a rifle and ordering him to the front, to inspire the men to some more "true courage".
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The Political Officer / int_67c0a723	comment	Worldwar: A minor recurring character is a Soviet NKVD officer who spends much of his time explaining why certain actions are necessary to preserve communism, justifying them by using the Marxist dialectic.
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The Political Officer / int_6f48e446	comment	Confessors of Command & Conquer: Tiberium Wars serves as these for the Brotherhood of Nod. They serve both as intelligence and religious officers, guiding and educating Militants in the field. In-game, Confessors are an upgrade: they increase the Milita squad's effectiveness.
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The Political Officer / int_70814599	comment	Stargate SG-1: Major Davis is introduced as the official liaison between Washington and the SGC and later with other nations on Earth. Despite the main element of his role being a Bearer of Bad News who shows up when a crisis threatens the entire planet he is treated sympathetically by the main characters and shows himself to be a capable, reasonable and heroic officer when required.
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The Political Officer / int_733a26ca	comment	Tom Sharpe's apartheid-era South African satires Riotous Assembly and Indecent Exposure feature Lieutenant Verkramp, who is much feared and distrusted because he is believed to be an agent of BOSS (although whether this is actually true, is open to question given that Konstabel Els, in particular, is believed to be of mixed race and well known for his enthusiasm for inter-racial intercourse, consensual or otherwise).
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The Political Officer / int_73d7930f	comment	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Obsidian Order seems to fill this role on Cardassian vessels, as seen in "Defiant".
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The Political Officer / int_760ce135	comment	In Blindsight, protagonist Siri Keeton is a synthesist sent into a First Contact situation. His job is to translate jargon and create a framework between several specialists in very different disciplines and is also responsible for 'dumbing it down' and reporting on the crew's progress for the baseline humans in charge back on Earth. The crew's biologist refers to him as 'Commissar' because of it and is only partway joking.
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The Political Officer / int_796e1adf	comment	In The Quantum Thief, the chen copy clan has served this function since the Dragon Wars, acting as observers on all Sobornost ships so that inter-Founder conflicts don't get in the way of larger Sobornost goals.
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The Political Officer / int_7b18cc26	comment	Lord Madeira from BattleTech (2018) is a nobleman attached to your mercenary company during the main campaign whose job it is to oversee your company and make sure you go where your employer wants you to go. Officially, his role is 'political advisor', but both he and his employer are open about the fact that he's there to remind you where your loyalties lie. Since the campaign does not offer you the opportunity to backstab your employer and you are under no time limit to complete it, his role as a political officer never comes into play and he leaves the Argo after the campaign ends.
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The Political Officer / int_7c44c988	comment	In the Boojumverse story "Mongoose", Izrael Irizarry has an Oh, Crap! moment when the political officer for the Space Station he's clearing of Eldritch Abominations turns up and starts asking awkward questions. Subverted when Colonel Sadhi Sanderson turns out to be a Reasonable Authority Figure who doesn't ask about his Mysterious Past but is more interested in helping Izrael do his job.
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The Political Officer / int_7d8ba0a	comment	Panfilov's 28 Men: This is a Russian film and so has a different attitude towards the political officer. Capt. Klochkov, the political officer who winds up leading the 28 men in a desperate defense against the Germans in front of Moscow in November 1941, is shown to be a brave and inspiring leader.
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The Political Officer / int_7e492043	comment	Among character classes in Allods Online, there is both Commissar (Imperial paladin) and Political Officer (Imperial healer). The Empire fuses the imagery of USSR and 19th century Russian Empire.
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The Political Officer / int_7f87dafc	comment	Muruta Azrael from Mobile Suit Gundam SEED serves this role on the Dominion. While officially just an "observer" from some committee, he's in fact the head of the Blue Cosmos terrorist group. He's really there to make sure his plans go right, even undermining the ship's Captain, who eventually turns on him. In Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny Rey Za Burrel plays a similar, though more subdued role on the Minerva, keeping the crew — and particularly Shinn — on the track that Chairman Durandal wants them on. By the end, Rey, and not Captain Talia Gladys, is the one really making decisions on the Minerva.
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The Political Officer / int_81692f99	comment	Star Trek: Star Trek: The Original Series: It's implied in "Mirror, Mirror" and the Expanded Universe that Security Chiefs in the mirror universe are also political officers, with the power to assassinate their ship's captain and/or first officer if they begin to deviate from Terran Empire doctrine. Star Trek: The Next Generation: A close variant in "A Matter of Honor", the first episode to deal with TNG's interpretation of the Klingons. It's stated to be the duty of Riker, as acting first officer on an exchange tour on a Klingon bird-of-prey, to kill his captain and take over should the captain dishonor the Empire. Though it's also the job of the second officer to kill Riker in turn for the same reason. In "Face of the Enemy", Troi is disguised as a Tal Shiar officer who fills this role on a Romulan warship. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Obsidian Order seems to fill this role on Cardassian vessels, as seen in "Defiant".
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The Political Officer / int_87becb4	comment	Guess who's the protagonist of Kommissar ? Klavdia is a female commissar with a cavalry regiment in the Russian Civil War, who has to go on leave when she becomes pregnant.
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The Political Officer / int_9910cc85	comment	Mulan has Chi Fu, an Imperial bureaucrat attached to Shang's unit. He's extremely annoying, has little faith in Shang because he thinks Shang got his promotion through nepotism, and suggests killing Mulan for being a woman after she just saved everyone's lives.
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The Political Officer / int_9a7088bc	comment	Star Trek: The Original Series: It's implied in "Mirror, Mirror" and the Expanded Universe that Security Chiefs in the mirror universe are also political officers, with the power to assassinate their ship's captain and/or first officer if they begin to deviate from Terran Empire doctrine.
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The Political Officer / int_9a8bf274	comment	Command & Conquer: Confessors of Command & Conquer: Tiberium Wars serves as these for the Brotherhood of Nod. They serve both as intelligence and religious officers, guiding and educating Militants in the field. In-game, Confessors are an upgrade: they increase the Milita squad's effectiveness. Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 features the Twinblade helicopters, each one co-piloted by a Soviet commissar. While they don't serve this function in-game, the fluff mentions that their original purpose was to patrol the edges of battlefields and shoot any Soviet deserters.
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The Political Officer / int_a6658fee	comment	True to the book, The Hunt for Red October has a political officer accompanying Captain Ramius, who is actually trying to defect. To keep him from endangering his plan, Ramius causes him to fall into a sharp corner and tragically break his neck. Also Hilarious in Hindsight, also the political officer's last name is Putin. However, unlike the book (detailed in the Literature folder below), Putin (even in the brief screen-time he gets in the film) thoroughly leaves the impression of being a smarmy weasel and the director tried (but claims to have failed) to portray Ramius as being reluctant to kill Putin.
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The Political Officer / int_a7a0b48b	comment	In NieR: Automata, not many members of the android armies know it, but some YoRHa units are designated as Executioner-models, and are tasked with silencing Scanner-models if they learn too much, or going after AWOL combat androids. Completing two sidequests over routes A and B adds some dark subtext to the tutorial mission: one of protagonist 2B's squadmates was planning on deserting during the operation, and sure enough, revisiting the sequence reveals that another member of the taskforce was designated 7E, presumably sent to try to prevent that. A bigger twist is that 2B herself is actually 2E, and has gone through several iterations of having to kill her partner 9S, only to be re-assigned as his minder after his memory is reset. The two keep developing feelings for each other, and 9S is starting to suspect the truth despite his memory resets.
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The Political Officer / int_aa78ef5c	comment	In the manga version of Venus Wars, Aphrodia gets them after the MESADA coup. Empowered to punish troops for any perceived cowardice or deviating from the party line, they impose repeated frontal assault against Ishtar's troops and their overwhelmingly powerful Octopus tanks, wasting a large part of their state's military force until the actual officers manage to wrestle back control of the troops. As the Battle of Route 1 almost resulted in the annihilation of Ishtar's 2nd Army Corps, it's heavily implied they were directly responsible for Aphrodia's defeat.
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The Political Officer / int_afeeacf6	comment	The Force Awakens: Captain Phasma seems to be one of these for the First Order. When she notices Stormtrooper FN-2187, who almost immediately afterwards defects to the good guys with the new name "Finn", hesitating and failing to assist in the execution of civilians, she orders him to report to her "division" for an assessment. She later states that her division had psychologically examined him and ordered "re-conditioning". She also commands troops in the field as well, and her silver chrome armor with a cape lets you know she's no ordinary soldier.
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The Political Officer / int_b28f43ff	comment	Takeshi Kovacs: In Broken Angels, the Wedge are kept under the surveillance of a political officer, so to avoid any problems with him they forcefully addict him to "the wire", threatening to withhold it if he causes trouble. The political officer gets his revenge when his surveillance reveals the protagonist is planning to kill his former colleagues — he 'forgets' to inform the Wedge commander of this.
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The Political Officer / int_b5eb67a5	comment	The Fallen Empire novella "Discovery and Flight" features a political officer who both functions as a morale officer and loyalty inspector and (possibly) a spy on his superiors. To his credit, he spends the battle comprising most of the novella encouraging the gunnery crews at great risk to his own life.
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The Political Officer / int_b8e5dfd9	comment	In Disco Elysium, the Deserter was originally a Commissar in the Revolutionary Army, and he's still bitterly holding onto his ideals even decades after he broke and ran.
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The Political Officer / int_b91248c0	comment	Life and Fate: Commissar Roushkin, a minor character in the first episode set at the battle of Stalingrad. He is introduced wearing a flower in a buttonhole of his uniform. And he's drunk.
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The Political Officer / int_bcadd7cb	comment	The terminology, unsurprisingly, is less confusing in Russian than English (seeing how that was the actual language of the USSR): a (People's) Commissariat was originally an organizational level of government, the same as "Ministry" which it replaced (due the popular connection with the ministries of the failed Russian Imperial government), or "Departments" in America. Since English speakers can live with multiple meanings for both words ("Ministry" also means "Church" in many English-speaking locales), so too can Eurasians: a Military Commissariat was a Military Department charged with local recruitment. What the English world calls "Commissars" are field officers; actual "Commissars" who used the title were the likes of Leon Trotsky, People's Commissar for War (War Minister). After the war, People's Commissariats became Ministries, and their heads became Ministers — since high-level bureaucrats aren't as interesting, in English, the ancillary meaning of the term has stuck.
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The Political Officer / int_bd8cd290	comment	Grunts!: Having spent a lot of time reading over the political philosophy texts in Dagurashibanipal's hoard, Marine Razitshakra turns into Marine Commissar Razitshakra, complete with Commissar Cap and Russian Army greatcoat, monitoring her fellow orcs for "ideological instability".
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The Political Officer / int_c2184f42	comment	Star Wars: Legacy: In a manner of speaking, the Sith Lords fill this overall role. While not part of the Imperial Military hierarchy, they oversee military units to ensure they serve the will of the Big Bad and Evil Overlord Darth Krayt. Complete with an "Oops, sorry sir" fragging of Darth Maleval by disgruntled stormtroopers.
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The Political Officer / int_c2e48301	comment	Valery Sablin, who led a mutiny in 1975 on board the Soviet frigate Storozhevoy (a "Krivak"), aiming to sail it from Riga to Leningrad and incite a revolution against a regime that he felt was failing and straying from communist ideology. A crew member escaped, alerted the authorities and the ship was stopped in international waters with the aid of Yak-28 "Brewer" bombers (they considered using Tu-16 "Badgers" but realised that launching anti-shipping missiles into a crowded shipping line was a dumb idea). The captain regained control of the ship just before the Yaks actually did some serious damage and Sablin was arrested. He was convicted of treason and shot. To avoid bad publicity, the Soviet government covered the incident by saying Sablin was trying to defect to the West. This was one of the incidents that inspired The Hunt for Red October.
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The Political Officer / int_c4a1d59e	comment	Call of Duty has Soviet Commissars in its titles set in World War II: The first Soviet mission in the original Call of Duty had you covering a sniper while he put down a commissar that was machine-gunning fleeing Soviet soldiers. In the next mission, your orders are to charge at a Nazi machine gun emplacement, with commissars behind you to punish you if you try to go anywhere but forward - including trying to collect ammo from dead friendlies. Commissar Letlev at the beginning of the Soviet campaign in Call of Duty 2 is portrayed more as a gently chiding, often hilarious, but still tough training officer, and the only threats of being shot for cowardice came not from him but from regular officers... unless you mess around instead of shooting a teddy bear for target practice like he ordered. World at War features Commissar Markhov, who mostly yells patriotic/bloodthirsty encouragement through a megaphone, but can occasionally be seen joining the front lines with a submachine gun in hand. Call of Duty: Finest Hour's Commissar Viktor Durasov.
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The Political Officer / int_c832776	comment	In Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny Rey Za Burrel plays a similar, though more subdued role on the Minerva, keeping the crew — and particularly Shinn — on the track that Chairman Durandal wants them on. By the end, Rey, and not Captain Talia Gladys, is the one really making decisions on the Minerva.
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The Political Officer / int_c8c98634	comment	Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 features the Twinblade helicopters, each one co-piloted by a Soviet commissar. While they don't serve this function in-game, the fluff mentions that their original purpose was to patrol the edges of battlefields and shoot any Soviet deserters.
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The Political Officer / int_cec99ed9	comment	Inquisitors serve this purpose in the Safehold series when the Church begins active military operations in their war with Charis. They have about as much or more power than the actual military commanders of the various Army of God forces in deciding what needs to be done.
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The Political Officer / int_d0e25eb9	comment	In Heavy Object, the Black Uniforms are Legitimacy Kingdom's internal police. They ensure units conform to regulations, prisoners are being treated well, and conduct contraband searches.
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The Political Officer / int_d461a59f	comment	Late in Battlestar Galactica (1978), the Council of Twelve decides to lift the state of emergency the fleet has been operating under ever since the destruction of the Twelve Colonies. They also appoint one of their number, Siress Tinia, to serve as Adama's "aide" to ensure he complies with Council policy. She spends her time countermanding any military action she deems too aggressive.
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The Political Officer / int_d48d66f1	comment	Darkness Series: The Russia-parallel nation has a line of these people stationed half a mile behind the front with sticks (magic guns) and orders to blaze (shoot) anyone passing by them.
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The Political Officer / int_d51eae87	comment	In the Axis & Allies spin-off Axis & Allies Miniatures, the Commissar was a Soviet commander with the ability to execute a Soviet infantry squad to give all other Soviet infantry under its command a bonus for one round. As the Soviets were the faction that had lots of cheap infantry, this turned out to be incredibly broken and it was quickly changed to instead have the ability to allow nearby infantry to ignore the effects of being Disrupted (which normally meant they couldn't act for one round).
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The Political Officer / int_de8ae019	comment	The Star Carrier series has a democratic variant with the Senate assigning their "political liaisons" to fleet carriers in order to make sure their orders are carried out. In the first book, Admiral Alexander Koenig ends up at odds with John Quintanilla, the Senate's liaison to the America, who keeps criticizing Koenig's orders and the overall battleplan, even though Koenig's wasn't the one who came up with it. Koenig ends up kicking Quintanilla out of the CIC, which later has political repercussions. For someone who's supposed to "liaise" with the military, Quintanilla doesn't even know how this 'verse's method of FTL works. Naturally, the author only does this for an As You Know exposition.
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The Political Officer / int_e6267766	comment	Star Wars Legends has the Political Reliability Observer, and in the new Star Wars Expanded Universe, the Empire has loyalty officers commissioned by Darth Vader.
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The Political Officer / int_e694aadb	comment	Ciaphas Cain: Commissar Ciaphas Cainnote HERO OF THE IMPERIUM is actually an aversion. While a great many commissars are the shoot-the-men-if-they-get-rowdy type who happily pull rank (they technically outrank anyone who's not a senior commissar, Inquisitor, or Space Marine) to ensure regulations are followed, he carefully cultivates bonds of camaraderie with the troops under him so he's less likely to suffer an "unfortunate accident" (see Catachans below). His position of trust and ability to act outside the chain of command has been what enabled him to save the day several times.
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The Political Officer / int_e8054edf	comment	Raumpatrouille had Lieutenant Tamara Jagellovsk, who started out as a non-political equivalent of this trope as she was assigned as a watchdog to the crew of Military Maverick McLane after said crew gets reassigned to "space patrol duty" after pulling one crazy stunt too many. However, she mellowed out over the course of the series until she was accepted by the crew as one of them.
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The Political Officer / int_eb3f3551	comment	Mass Effect: Andromeda: The Primus, The Dragon to the Archon seems to be one of these, for the kett, apparently sent to keep an eye on the Archon and make sure he and his troops are keeping to kett doctrine, and complaining about how the Archon's not doing what he's told. Three-quarters of the way through the game, she starts a miniature insurrection to make sure the kett forces in the Heleus Cluster follow the party line. Depending on the player's choices, it's possible to find several Archon loyalists have suffered a bad outbreak of execution.
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The Political Officer / int_f0d57197	comment	The Dark Forest includes a rare example of a heroic political officer who actually accomplishes things by being good at being a political officer.
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The Political Officer / int_f26c58d6	comment	Major Lebedjev from World in Conflict: Soviet Assault is depicted as a shrewd pragmatist who is more concerned with the overall success of the Soviet invasion of the US mainland than with the troops' blind obedience to the party line. Once it becomes obvious that the invasion has failed, he backs Colonel Orlovsky in his decision to retreat to the coast and evacuate. Ironically, one of the Orlovsky's overzealous subordinates, Captain Malashenko, then shoots him for treachery. While Lebedjev publicly praises him to save face (and his own life, as Malashenko pointed his pistol at him right after shooting Orlovsky), he covertly arranges for the most radicalized units to be put under Malashenko's command and sent on a suicide raid on Seattle, while the main remnant of the Soviet force makes its way to the evac point, where he uses his political connections to make sure the evacuation happens.
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The Political Officer / int_f74b5f80	comment	One major sign of EarthGov's slide into dictatorship was the assignment of a political officer to Babylon 5. A very hot female political officer. Who can go from fully clothed to stark naked in the time it takes someone to turn around (neat trick).
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The Political Officer / int_ff9ab17f	comment	Star Trek: The Next Generation: A close variant in "A Matter of Honor", the first episode to deal with TNG's interpretation of the Klingons. It's stated to be the duty of Riker, as acting first officer on an exchange tour on a Klingon bird-of-prey, to kill his captain and take over should the captain dishonor the Empire. Though it's also the job of the second officer to kill Riker in turn for the same reason. In "Face of the Enemy", Troi is disguised as a Tal Shiar officer who fills this role on a Romulan warship.
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Things Left Behind (Fanfic) / int_24ae6005	type	The Political Officer
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Commissar / int_24ae6005	type	The Political Officer
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Kukushka / int_24ae6005	type	The Political Officer
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1944 / int_24ae6005	type	The Political Officer
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71: Into the Fire / int_24ae6005	type	The Political Officer
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Childe Cycle / int_24ae6005	type	The Political Officer
Ciaphas Cain	seeAlso	The Political Officer
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Final Frontier / int_24ae6005	type	The Political Officer
Grunts! / int_24ae6005	type	The Political Officer
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Monstrous Regiment / int_24ae6005	type	The Political Officer
RCN / int_24ae6005	type	The Political Officer
Rihannsu / int_24ae6005	type	The Political Officer
Safehold / int_24ae6005	type	The Political Officer
Sharps	seeAlso	The Political Officer
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Vortex / int_24ae6005	type	The Political Officer
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Battlestar Galactica (1978) / int_24ae6005	type	The Political Officer
Colditz / int_24ae6005	type	The Political Officer
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Only War (Tabletop Game) / int_24ae6005	type	The Political Officer
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Starfire (Tabletop Game) / int_24ae6005	type	The Political Officer
Allods Online (Video Game) / int_24ae6005	type	The Political Officer
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Helldivers (Video Game) / int_24ae6005	type	The Political Officer
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StarCraft (Video Game) / int_24ae6005	type	The Political Officer
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