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The term "politburo" in English comes from the Russian Politbyuro (Политбюро), itself a contraction of Politicheskoy Byuro (Политической Бюро, "Political Bureau"). Among the remaining Communist states, the Spanish Politburó was directly loaned from Russian, while Chinese uses a calque (Chinese: 政治局; pinyin: Zhèngzhì Jú), from which the Vietnamese (Bộ Chính trị), and Korean (정치국, 政治局 Jeongchigug) terms derive.
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