 Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Khrushchev akasvika Stalingrad Front muna August 1942, nokukurumidza pashure pokutanga kwehondo yeguta. Basa rake mukudzivirira kweStalingrad rakanga risiri guru - General Vasily Chuikov, uyo akatungamirira kudzivirira kweguta, anotaura nezvaKhrushchev kwenguva pfupi chete mubhuku rake rakabudiswa apo Khrushchev akanga ari mutungamiri wehurumende - asi kusvikira pakuguma kwoupenyu hwake, aidada nebasa rake. Kunyange zvazvo akashanyira Stalin muMoscow pane dzimwe nguva, akaramba ari muStalingrad kwechikamu chikuru chehondo uye akapotsa aurayiwa kanenge kamwe. Akakarakadza kurwisa, asi akawana kuti Zhukov nevamwe vakuru vakuru vakanga vatoronga Operation Uranus, chirongwa chokubva panzvimbo dzeSoviet uye kukomba nokuparadza vaGermany; chakanga chichichengetwa chakavanzika. Uranus isati yatangwa, Khrushchev akapedza nguva yakawanda achitarisa kuti mauto akanga akagadzirira here uye kuti aiva nemafungiro akanaka here, achibvunzurudza vasungwa vechiNazi, uye achiunganidza vamwe kuti vaite basa rokuparadzira mashoko. 