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Thank you. Greetings, comrades, and today we talk about a truly, truly important innovation of military warfare,

a tank that could be said changed history because I promised you that I will be talking about tank specifications and everything.

And what better way to start off all of our talking about tanks

than the venerable war course,

the kind of the most famous tank of them all,

at least here in Eastern Europe, the T-34.

I don't know how the people think about all of this in the West, but over here in the Soviet block and the post-Sovid block,

if someone says, hey, think of a tank, or just visualize a tank, the default tank, right?

You think of a T-34.

T-34 has the tank's silhouette.

It's the tank that overshadowes everything else. It's awesome and great, and everything that can be, it's like the most default tank ever.

It's a medium tank, and it had variations too.

It was a weird thing, really, and the Soviet tank that really did change the world,

but it also was sort of kind of a death trap in a way.

Think about it.

It's an amazing thing.

I'll start with some technical statistics because, well, I want to give this venerable beast

the justice that it deserves and then we'll go through its history.

And it was in service by the Soviet Union from 1940s to 1960s, and it is still in service by

other rogue states, mostly in Africa until wars from the 1950s, used by Soviet Union and 39 others.

It is basically the Kalashnikov of tanks.

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