Then they'd run into one of these and get warmed up some more:
“The factories would simply crank them out like bread from a bakery.”
The factory was near Moscow and the soldiers would drive them out the factory door to the front while the castings were still warm!
Actually that was the factory in Stalingrad. From late in 1941 until the middle of 1942, with the exception of the Stalingrad factory, and the Leningrad factory all Soviet tank production ceased as the factories were shut down and their production machinery relocated to the Ural Mountains. As the Germans approached Stalingrad, workers would drive the unpainted tanks straight from the factory to the battlefield. By Late 1942 the Soviet tank production began in Ural cities such as Chelyabinsk (aka Tankograd) and Nizhny Tagil, which for a while was the largest tank production facility in the world.
Then they'd run into one of these and get warmed up some more: