henkster ~:” Look at the biography of one Lev Mehklis to see how much damagae a zampolit can do.”
Soviet Zampolit ,Lev Zakharovich Mekhlis, Stalin’s personal secretary , in 1940 , who argued in favor of murdering Polish army officers and Catholic Priests in the Katyn Massacre .
A massacre from which the Polish people never fully recovered . Remarkable !!
Ramius had to kill his off, in The Hunt For Red October.