umbers of the new T-34 when the invasion began. The rapid german advancement deep into Russia as far as Moscow forced the russian industry which already lost countless factories to literally move its entire remaining military industry factories over 1000 miles further east to Siberia to avoid losing it to the advancing germans. In the newly built factories Russia's military industry restored and far exceeded its pre-war mass production capacity.(www.qt.org/worldwar/weapons)
             After the initial tremendous defeats in 1941 which cost Russia millions of soldiers and a huge lost territory, since mid 1942 the russian army was equipped with rapidly increasing amounts of T-34 tanks which matched the german tanks and increasingly outnumbered them. Since late 1942 in the late stages of the great battle of Stalingrad, and then in the huge tank battle in Kursk in mid 1943 and until the end of the war T-34 tanks in constantly growing large numbers, outnumbered and crushed the german tanks and pushed the german invaders all the way back to Berlin, serving as one of the main war winning weapons of world war 2. (www.stormpages.com)
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