Nikolai Selivanovsky was an officer in the NKVD and a Deputy Head of SMERSH during World War Two. Following the war Selivanovsky become the deputy head of the Ministry of State Security (MGB).[1] He was also the chief Soviet advisor to the Polish Ministry of Public Security after the war.[2]
World War Two
editDuring 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.[3] 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.[4]
In 1943 Selivanovsky was in charge of SMERSH efforts to infiltrate agents into the rear areas of the German army.[5]
References
edit- ^ Birstein, Vadim J. (2012-03-01). "Soviet Military Counterintelligence from 1918 to 1939". International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence. 25 (1): 44–110. doi:10.1080/08850607.2012.622704. ISSN 0885-0607.
- ^ Polonsky, Antony (2017). "Jews and Communism in the Soviet Union and Poland". In Jacobs, Jack (ed.). Jews and Leftist Politics. Cambridge University Press. p. 161. doi:10.1017/9781107256521.008. ISBN 978-1-107-25652-1. Retrieved 2020-04-30.
- ^ Glantz, David M. (2009). Armageddon in Stalingrad : September-November 1942. House, Jonathan M. (Jonathan Mallory), 1950-. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas. pp. 465–466. ISBN 978-0-7006-1664-0. OCLC 319064655.
- ^ Glantz, David M. (2009). Armageddon in Stalingrad : September-November 1942. House, Jonathan M. (Jonathan Mallory), 1950-. Lawrence, Kan.: University Press of Kansas. pp. 131–134, 699. ISBN 978-0-7006-1664-0. OCLC 319064655.
- ^ Litera, B., 2012. Smersh: the Activities of the Soviet Military Counterintelligence during the Second World War. AUC Studia Territorialia, 1(2), page 49.