Unfortunately the matter becomes cloudy to downright muddy if we allow ourselves to include the largely opinion-based if not quite scholarly articles that tend to dominate the subject. The answers are actually pretty easy to find - when we look at the actual empirical data. How realistic are these statements? Was the T34 really a super-tank? Was it really better than what Fritz had in the east? Īccording to the history books it sported revolutionary sloped armor, incredible mobility, and is often said to be the reasons the Soviet side won the War for the Eastern Front against a better-armed and supplied enemy. Well known by pretty much anyone intersted in either tanks, World War II, or tanks AND World War II, the Soviet T-34 tank is held up to be superior to everything the Germans had.
The fact that none of that happens to be true notwithstanding, we thought you should know a little about that model tank just you know, so you don't get sucked into that mass-illusion. Actually what they will say is that it was the best tank in WW2 with the finest engineering and design. If you are at all active on fan site chat boards you won't have to play World of Tanks very long before you run into the T34 fanboys who will tell you that Russia's super tank was, well, a super tank.
The T34 Myth: Why Russia's Battle Tank Wasn't.
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