World War Two
During the Battle of Stalingrad Selivanovsky was a Senior NKVD Major and the head of Special Sections for the Stalingrad Front. He reported on the conditions of the Soviet soldiers in Stalingrad in great detail to Viktor Abakumov. His detailed reports were important in helping Stalin and Soviet generals gauge the moral of the Red Army defenders as well as assess the performance of its commanders. In 1943 Selivanovsky was in charge of SMERSH efforts to infiltrate agents into the rear areas of the German army.Litera, B., 2012. Smersh: the Activities of the Soviet Military Counterintelligence during the Second World War. ''AUC Studia Territorialia'', ''1''(2), page 49.References
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