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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

T-34s, especially wartime production T-34s were not great tanks.

They were good enough that they completely outclassed the Panzer III and IV that were sent against them at the start.

"The Panzer IV was partially succeeded by the Panther medium tank, which was introduced to counter the Soviet T-34, " https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzer_IV

"a direct reaction to the encounters with the Soviet T-34 and KV-1 tanks and against the advice of Wa Prüf 6.[Notes 1][12] The T-34 outclassed the existing models of the Panzer III and IV.[13][14] At the insistence of General Heinz Guderian, a special tank commission was created to assess the T-34"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panther_tank

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Paul Ludwig Ewald von Kleist, called it "the finest tank in the world" and Heinz Guderian affirmed the T-34's "vast superiority" over German tanks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-34?wprov=sfla1

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