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- Dictionaryap·pa·rat·chik/ˌäpəˈräCHik/
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- 1. a member of a Communist Party apparat: "old apparatchiks have given way to the Russian government's young reformers"
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Professional functionary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
An apparatchik was a full-time, professional functionary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union or the Soviet government apparat (аппарат, apparatus), someone who held any position of bureaucratic or political responsibility, with the exception of the higher ranks of management called nomenklatura. Wikipedia