This Soviet Tank Made Panzers Look Like Glass Cannons
The T-34 was very solid and could be mass-produced in the thousands. Germany did not have an equivalent.
Key Point: Hitler lamented his decision to invade the vast Soviet Union, but it was too late to reverse his course.
In 1942, careworn Nazi Führer Adolf Hitler lamented to his military intimates at his Wolf’s Lair headquarters near Rastenburg in East Prussia, “If I had known that there were so many of them, I would have had second thoughts about invading!”
The “them” he was referring to were the famed Soviet Red Army T-34 battle tanks that had come as such a nasty surprise to the Nazis in the summer of 1941 and then went on to become a major reason for the panzers being halted at the gates of Moscow.
Germany
Moscow
Moskva
Russia
Chelyabinsk
Chelyabinskaya-oblast
Stalingrad
Volgogradskaya-oblast
Rastenburg
Warminsko-mazurskie
Poland
Kursk