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  • Every manager, from the humblest EO [team leader = Gruppenführer (in) = foreperson] right up to the Permanent Secretary of ever Government Department, now has to be a zampolit/politruk, and is resposible for ensuring that all his/her immediate subordinates obey the latest directives on Equality and Diversity.

    If You Want Loyalty…. Get A Dog! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2008

  • Bloggers are pesky to them elites who use the overwhelming liberal editorial departments to spread the zampolit party line in lock-step drill.

    "Journalists are still hot in Hollywood." Ann Althouse 2009

  • Comrade Goss forgot that the first responsibility of a zampolit is to the Party, not his pecker.

    Firedoglake » Twists and Turns on the Goss Resignation 2006

  • Do you follow the law, and add whatever the friendly zampolit tells you to add to your product, no matter how much it turns your stomach personally?

    Chinese Fatigue Regulations 2005

  • Do you follow the law, and add whatever the friendly zampolit tells you to add to your product, no matter how much it turns your stomach personally?

    Chinese Fatigue Regulations 2005

  • He smiled slightly, imagining the consternation that the Psychological Services officer -- the new term for a zampolit -- would be causing in the control tower.

    Nuke Zone Douglass, Keith 1998

  • Speaking with his fellow technicians hadn't helped-though it had earned him the wrathful attention of his company zampolit.

    The Cardinal of the Kremlin Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1988

  • The Directorate Three men on the submarines and in the land-based rocket regiments held that power-the zampolit, the political officer alone had the authority to activate the warheads without which the rockets were mere fireworks.

    The Cardinal of the Kremlin Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1988

  • In the end, all he'd earned for himself was a letter from the zampolit that would travel with him for the rest of his life.

    The Cardinal of the Kremlin Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1988

  • If there was anything Alekseyev didn't need now, it was a zampolit.

    Red Storm Rising Clancy, Tom, 1947- 1986

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