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While the Soviet Union was claiming friendship with Hitler in a deceptive June 13 TASS
announcement, Stalin was massing Soviet troops near the western borders. e Germans attacked
while the Soviet troops were still moving forward by rail. Once the tracks were destroyed the tanks
could not be unloaded and the best ones, the T-34s, were left as a present for Hitler.
Even the best German Panzer divisions were using Soviet T-34 tanks.