These tankas are undeservedly slandered and defamed on ideological considerations. Them it is accepted to consider pitiful "керосинками" with a "cardboard" armour and wretched "пукалками" instead of instruments, not going to no comparing to threatening soviet бронетехникой. But if it so - why did Red Army apply ленд-лизовские tankas right to end wars in composition мехкорпусов of household troops on directions of main shots?There is an anchorman in the new book a specialist on history of бронетехники refutes in the everyday use ideological stamps, with numbers and facts proving that "шерманы" and "валентайны", alongside with ИСами and "тридцатьчетверками" reaching to Berlin, also deserved kind memory and right to be considered the symbols of our Victory.