After recently viewing a documentary on the history channel about comparing the Soviet and German tanks of the WWII period, i noted that little attention was paid to the Soviet made tank and when it was looked up, it was usually refered to as being incredibly crude, simplistic, backward, and only successful due to the fact that it fought in vast hordes.
This as opposed to the great amount of detail given on the subject of the deployment and development of German tanks and their actions against western allied forces.
In the usual way that the history channel has, it decidedly took a strong anti-Soviet slant in favor of German tanks, venerating them as being highly sophisticated and superior designs to the T-34 and Soviet engineering in general, and actually used German sources rather than Russian ones to study the history of the T-34.
I was wondering what was the viewpoint of this forum's members on the T-34 and generally it's effect on the history of tanks.
This as opposed to the great amount of detail given on the subject of the deployment and development of German tanks and their actions against western allied forces.
In the usual way that the history channel has, it decidedly took a strong anti-Soviet slant in favor of German tanks, venerating them as being highly sophisticated and superior designs to the T-34 and Soviet engineering in general, and actually used German sources rather than Russian ones to study the history of the T-34.
I was wondering what was the viewpoint of this forum's members on the T-34 and generally it's effect on the history of tanks.