Comments by "Kora Na" (@korana6308) on "Military History Visualized" channel.

The mistake wasn't stopping it in 1943 it was hardly a mistake, because there wouldn't be any reasonable negotiating positions to which the Soviet Russia would agree. The mistake was to attack Russia to begin with (something which for some reason the western Europe do not understand, and it puzzles me, their luck of understanding that). In 1941 before the invasion. It was the golden times for the mustache guy. They'd just basically divided Europe into 2 zones. The Soviet Union, and Germany, from which point it would have been 2 systems competing with each other economically, to which the German one was obviously far superior. For example, they had just created the modern fighter aviation, just started creating the first rockets for Space exploration, just had the basics for the nuclear weapons and power. All of the modern technology basically was kickstarted since the 1931 till 1941. All he has to do was to not invade Russia. And the Germany would have now been the superpower which nobody else would have been able to stop. Now, in 1941 before the invasion they were just at war with the Brits (Brits were the ones who started it), so all they had to do is sort all of their problems with the Brits together with Stalin. As judging by the Molotov Pact, they were not against negotiations, and they could have just dealt with it together. After which the time of prosperity for Germany would have began... and all he had to do for that was not to invade Russia, like many had tried before him.
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Sources differ. The point is that it is very likely that Russia will modernise 800 T 62 ,because Russia had produced around 30k of those tanks, so they will be dirt cheap to modernise even if half of them already have rusted away... To find a few thousand good enough for service T62 is not a problem, and especially only 800 for a fraction of a cost is easy.
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@thermalvision203 Are you OK? Nobody is saying that Russia isn't modernizing other tanks. Russia is modernizing all of it's tanks. We were talking specifically about a T 62, which Russia is also modernizing 800 units to be specific.
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@grahamstrouse1165 that's what being b. washed looks like.
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You can go directly to the Russian source for that number on wikipedia. Where you will see, they directly mention not a tank, but an engine " GTD - 1000 / 1250 " , so it's not just T80 but a plethora of Tanks and machines with that name... which Russian wikipedia assumes that any vehicle with that engine is a T80, which is incorrect. The actual number of all of the T80 tanks produced and all of it's modifications would be not more than 8 thousand. Surviving to this day T 80s would be no more than a few thousand - 3k - 4k no more.
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