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    Something wrong with this statistics, the largest amount of tanks was produced in 1943, in 1944 much less, and in 1945 reduction of tank production is very clear. And the 1940 is missing in this graph for USSR (and USA too). Commented Nov 7, 2025 at 14:50
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    @Leonid - I think the point of the graph is that it was effectively 0 (on this scale at least) for both nations in 1940. Do you feel that's inaccurate? From what I can see here, the USA produced less than 400 tanks that year, most of them light tanks or "combat car"s. If one rounds to the nearest thousand (the scale of the graph), the USA produced 0 thousand tanks that year. Commented Nov 7, 2025 at 15:23
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    @T.E.D. The US is well known for having gone to sleep, militarily speaking, prior to both WW1 and WW2 so it has a pre-war exceptionalism that doesn't necessarily support any conclusions wrt Soviet production numbers. Commented Nov 7, 2025 at 16:47
  • An important point about "Soviet leadership". For practical purposes the "Soviet leadership" was Stalin. If Stalin said something would happen, it happened. Sometimes the actual soviets would vote on something, for the look of it, but they always voted for whatever Stalin said. So waiting for soviet approval wasn't a thing. Commented Nov 7, 2025 at 17:58
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    @SJuan76: Perhaps you are talking about '41 and '42, not '39 or '40 which are zero for both countries? Commented Nov 10, 2025 at 15:24