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Originally Posted by Carl W Schwamberger
Nearly all the Soviet tanks lost in the opening months were lost due to badly trained crews, inept tactical leaders, chaotic operational leadership, and a blundering strategy from the top. A logistics sytem that frequently collapsed helped as well. The same regiments that lost their tanks due to wrong orders, failed fuel deliverys, untrained gunners, ect... will lose them whatever model they are.
The Britsh & French had tanks with better armor and better guns than the Germans in 1940, but were still defeated. Why should the worse prepared Soviet Army do better just because it has a different tank?
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You put up a good argument. All I can reply is that most of the outmoded fleet (BT, T-37, T-40, T-26, etc etc) besides being inherently useless (or as useful as the PzII and early PzIII) already had a lot of mileage in them so were all potential junkheaps.
The T-34s, being new construction, would at least have lasted a bit more, and even if not perfect (which they weren't) would be a bit tougher than the other speed bumps.
We have all the anedoctal evidence of the 37mm PaK (and KwK) becoming useless overnight when faced with T-34, so a fleet of these instead of the previous mishmash must have had some effect.