apparatchik

Noun

Meaning

a communist who was a member of the administrative system of a communist party

a humorous but derogatory term for an official of a large organization (especially a political organization)

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When you repeat, in that wooden and perfunctory way, that our situation is better than others, that we're 'well-placed to weather the storm', I have to tell you that you sound like a Brezhnev-era apparatchik giving the party line. Daniel Hannan

Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime. Salman Rushdie

Democratic apparatchiks Source: Internet

Shitposting was exactly what Zhao Lijian, a Chinese foreign ministry apparatchik, was doing with his tweet that gloated over the Brereton report and showed a Digger cutting an Afghan child’s throat. Source: Internet

Twitter merely labeled as “sensitive” a from a Chinese communist apparatchik that contains a false depiction of an Australian soldier preparing to behead a child. Source: Internet

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