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Is it really worth watching? I found that most YouTube channels with a rather big amount of subscribers are just lib propaganda outlets

I briefly skimmed this. It kind of seems fairly accurate, but there are a few issues I would like to point out. First, they do highlight the sloped armor and I think welded seams, both of which made the T-34 the most advanced tank design at the beginning of WW2, though other tank designs rapidly adopted this (they specifically highlight the German Panther adopting slopped armor in this video). Though the video seems to need to always bring up the trade offs in this design choice almost as a "failure" of this design, despite all modern tanks using welded seams and sloped/angled armor.

The two man turret and tight crew space is agreed to be a drawback of the T-34 design. They seem to harp on this, but there is also, at least for the tight crew space, a trade off with production in terms of making the tank more spacious and comfortable. The decision was explicitly made that making more tanks and the advantage of the numerical superiority, and the increased survival chance that offered, outweighed crew comfort.

There was actual criticism of a specific transmission and engine in the T-34. If it was the late war model, that might be worth while (I don't know enough to place the specific version they were criticizing). But one of the major design constraints of the T-34 is that the Soviet Union was still modernizing and spinning up their production lines. So the main design constraint of the T-34 was making the design modular enough to swap out transmissions and engines easily without changing their design. As early in the war, tractor engines and transmissions were used until dedicated tank production lines could be spun up, and the actual transmission and engine used was changed multiple times during the war.

Though they are very liberal (and Australian too), the Totally Tanked podcast covered the T-34 in decent depth, for another viewpoint. I am not really interested in tanks or other military hardware, but have tried to learn enough to sniff out WW2 revisionism bullshit occasionally.

but it was the tank they needed

I found a YouTube link in your post. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

• yewtu.be
• inv.nadeko.net
• yt.artemislena.eu
• piped.video