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For all it's praise for being "the finest tank in the world," at 44,900 lost during the war, it holds the record for the most tank loss ever. Not to mention all the light tanks they lost as well.
That said, although the T34 was well designed, a lot of their other equipment wasn't. The Stalin regime was obsessed with the appearance of quantity over quality. The T34 show models were probably of different quality than those that were pumped out of the communist factories. Not to mention, the lack of training of the tank crews in the rush of war.
In agriculture they consistently claimed record harvests as famine wracked their land. Their approach to war was no different. They just threw numbers, men, and equipment at a problem, and let Pravda make sense of the propaganda.
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