8/17 T-34, the tank removed from the monument in Estonia, began its production run in Kharkiv in 1940. It was originally based on American J. Walter Christie's M1928 tank, versions of which were sold turret-less to the Red Army as 'farm tractors', after being rejected by the US Army./ Albert Kahn
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