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LazerPig's argument for T-34 being one of the worst tanks of WW2 goes like this:
A) When built to it's specifications, T-34 would be decent to good design.
B) Soviets did not build them to the specifications during the war.
He addressed the obvious counterpoint of "quantity has quality of it's own" with the fact that you needed to train even more tank crews to replace all of the ones lost due to bad production quality so the crew quality also went to shitter.
I can't find the clip with a quick search but if you search for The Chieftain climbing out of T-34 and Sherman (the alleged death trap Zippo lighter) you can see night and day difference between the two. Even if Sherman did get "killed" as long as it wasn't catastrophic, the crew could basically jump out and be assigned to a new tank. T-34 in comparison is extremely cramped due to combination of low profile and the angled armor. This leads to additional soft factor where sitting in and driving around in Sherman is simply less exhausting for the crew than in T-34.
A) When built to it's specifications, T-34 would be decent to good design.
B) Soviets did not build them to the specifications during the war.
He addressed the obvious counterpoint of "quantity has quality of it's own" with the fact that you needed to train even more tank crews to replace all of the ones lost due to bad production quality so the crew quality also went to shitter.
I can't find the clip with a quick search but if you search for The Chieftain climbing out of T-34 and Sherman (the alleged death trap Zippo lighter) you can see night and day difference between the two. Even if Sherman did get "killed" as long as it wasn't catastrophic, the crew could basically jump out and be assigned to a new tank. T-34 in comparison is extremely cramped due to combination of low profile and the angled armor. This leads to additional soft factor where sitting in and driving around in Sherman is simply less exhausting for the crew than in T-34.