This battle tank earned its treads in the brutal battles that pitted Stalin’s Red Army against Nazi Germany’s Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS during the Second World War, or as the Russians still call it, the Great Patriotic War ( Velikaya Otechestvennaya voyna ). Regardless of whether or not Uncle Joe said this, the quote can easily be applied to a Soviet-designed ground-pounding weapon – the legendary T-34 medium tank. Russia’s T-34 Tank, a History: In response to my recent 1945 articles on the ubiquitous Soviet-designed MiG-21 “Fishbed” and MiG-23 “Flogger” jet fighters, a couple of my Facebook friends quoted the saying, “Quantity has a quality all its own” – a statement supposedly made by Joseph Stalin.
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