apparatchik

Meaning

Noun

  • A member of the Soviet apparat; a Communist bureaucrat or agent.
  • A blindly loyal bureaucrat.

Origin

  • From Russian аппара́тчик ("operator, apparatchik"), from аппара́т + suffix -чик.

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