>Sounds just like the political officers in the old Soviet military.
I clicked on this thread to type that exact sentiment.
I can see that an officer would, as part of his training, be ready to ensure that people weren’t judged other than by their readiness for duty.
As soon as you have an officer whose whole job is to ensure compliance with current political memes, you have the NKVD all over again.
At some point in the mid-1990s....in my last year or two before retirement from AF....I stood at some meeting and recognized some newly created job for some Captain as “NKVD-like”. Having spent years within the general intel field...I commented on this, and several folks kinda laughed and said I was noting getting the point. About five years after I retired, most of the same people were now admitting that they were facing NKVD-like individuals on a weekly basis.
I think most of the news journalists of today...function like a NKVD officer. They feel it’s their “duty”, and accept it with no hesitation. We almost need a Animal Farm-like book....to talk over the NKVD experience and how you get from one step to another....creating fake enthusiasm for something that is generally against our beliefs.