Example sentences for: apparatchik

How can you use “apparatchik” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In 1987, while other Yugoslav leaders ignored the Kosovo mess, Slobodan Milosevic, then a little-known Communist Party apparatchik, began accusing Albanians of perpetrating genocide against Kosovo's Serbs.

  • Quite simply, he has an apparatchik's attitude: He will hang onto power at all costs.

  • The Russian prime minister from 1992 until 1998, a Soviet apparatchik before that, Viktor Chernomyrdin remains, oddly, a cipher.

  • Before Chernomyrdin joined Yegor Gaidar's reformist government half a year earlier, he had had the political profile of an apparatchik, which is to say, he didn't have one.

  • To prevent any of his discontented subjects from revolting, Milosevic has reverted to the nastiest of his old apparatchik instincts.


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