An '''apparatchik''' as [[communist party]] [[bureaucrat]] or functionary. The term has been applied to any mundane and uninspiring personality in a [[political machine]].
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An '''apparatchik''' is a [[communist party]] [[bureaucrat]] or functionary. The term has been applied to any mundane and uninspiring personality in a [[political machine]]. The term originates to describe a mindless [[leftwing]] [[big government]] [[political operative]] in the [[Russian]]n communist apparatus.