The 'Junk' Tank That Destroyed Hitler's Army — How the T-34 Won the Eastern Front

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In October 1941, a German anti-tank crew fired eleven rounds at a Soviet tank outside Mtsensk. Not one penetrated. The T-34's sloped armor turned their best shells into skipping stones. Germany responded with the Tiger — a 300,000 man-hour masterpiece. They built 1,347. The Soviets built over 57,000 T-34s during the war, assembling them in unheated factories at minus forty degrees. By 1944, for every German heavy tank that rolled off the line, twelve T-34s answered. The Tiger is a museum piece. The T-34 was still fighting in 1995.'

Welcome to ‪@ww2.cauldron‬ where we uncover the grit, logistics, and forgotten operations of the Eastern Front. We strip away the mythology to reveal the brutal arithmetic of World War II.

In this video, you'll learn how Mikhail Koshkin drove two prototypes 2,850 kilometers through mud and snow — and died of pneumonia before seeing what his tank became. You'll see how entire factories were dismantled onto 8,000 railway flatcars and reassembled in the Urals within six weeks. And you'll understand why Germany's pursuit of tactical perfection lost to Soviet industrial mathematics across an 1,800-mile front.

Chapters
▶ 00:00 - The T-34 Shock at Mtsensk: Eleven Rounds, Zero Penetrations
▶ 02:16 - Tiger I vs T-34: Germany's 300,000 Man-Hour Mistake
▶ 05:27 - Koshkin's 2,850km Drive and Three Design Breakthroughs
▶ 07:08 - Tankograd: Building Tanks at Minus 40 Degrees
▶ 09:12 - The T-34/85 Upgrade That Changed the War in Five Months
▶ 11:11 - Operation Bagration and the Mathematics of Annihilation

Topics Covered
T-34 tank design and sloped armor innovation versus German Panzer engineering
The emergency factory evacuation from Kharkov to the Urals in 1941
Tankograd mass production and wartime industrial output
Tiger I and Panther tank production failures and mechanical breakdowns
The T-34/85 upgrade from two-man to three-man turret
Operation Bagration and the destruction of Army Group Center
Soviet deep battle doctrine and the economics of attrition warfare

"History is written by the victors. We read the footnotes."

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