Only until such time as their productive capacity improved to the point where the T-34's became primary. I saw a number of T-34's at the Ukrainian War Memorial in Kiev. They are the roughest looking thing going because they had to be built fast with no "finish" on them.
When the Russians finally turned the tide against the Germans, the T-34 was their lead. That is the tank that won at Kursk.
“Sherman tanks to equip their elite Guards Tank Divivions”
Only until such time as their productive capacity improved to the point where the T-34’s became primary. I saw a number of T-34’s at the Ukrainian War Memorial in Kiev. They are the roughest looking thing going because they had to be built fast with no “finish” on them.
When the Russians finally turned the tide against the Germans, the T-34 was their lead. That is the tank that won at Kursk.
You’ve got your history backwards. The Lend-Lease Sherman tanks were a later replacement for the T-34 tanks. The Lend-lease Sherman tanks were delivered to the Soviet Union during the period of 1943-1945, and the Red Army used them as a high reliability replacement for the T-34. Among the early deliveries were some 38 of the M4-A2 Sherman tanks equipped with the Diesal engines used by the 229th Tank Regiment, 48th Army at the Battle of Kursk. As further deliveries of the Sherman tank arrived, they were used to equip the Red Army’s elite tank units for the remainder of the Second World War, and the more than 4,000 Sherman tanks comprised some 16% of Soviet tanks during the war or one in six Soviet tanks. The Soviet Sherman tanks were highly valued by the Red Army to the end of the war where they participated in large numbers on the Soviet-Japanese front in 1945.
The Sherman tanks were also highly effective against Soviet T-34/85 tanks in the Korean War, where the Sherman was in half of the tank to tank engagements, killed 3 to 1 in loss rate, and very few of which became unrecoverable or unserviceable. On average only one crewman was killed wheen a Sherman was knocked out, whereas on average only one crewman survived when a T-34 tank was knocked out. This survival rate, improved habitability, being equipped with a tactical radio, good performance, superior ease of maintenance and reliability combined to make the Sherman a first choice of tank in the Red Army.