Before 1869, supply duties had been the responsibility of the Commissariat, a uniformed civilian body. Because droughts and bad harvests hampered his commissariat, Saladin agreed to a truce. The Bolsheviks set up the Transcaucasian Commissariat in the Caucasus. In September 1941, Erich Koch was appointed to the Ukrainian Commissariat. Its full title was the Reich Commissariat for the Occupied Dutch Territories (). That night, NKVD troops surrounded the offices of the Commissariat of Foreign Affairs. H. Aliyev joined the Azerbaijan SSR People's Commissariat for State Security (NKGB) in 1944. Stalin expelled me from the [Foreign Affairs Commissariat] for having signed the same declaration. Three men were arrested and taken to the commissariat of police. This point of view was backed by the Soviet Commissariat of Nationalities. The Great Purge inflicted tremendous losses on the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs. The People's Commissariat of Finance (Narkomfin) emerged as the leading bureaucratic agency seeking currency stabilization. In 1918 the Commissariat of Public Health was established. In fact, Benois was the most likely choice to direct any such commissariat. In early 1939, Gromyko started working for the People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs in Moscow.