Much has been written of the Russian T-34 tank as one of the great surprises of World War II. There are reasons for that, yet another good Russian tank - which was named for a Peoples' Commissar for Defense at the time of the Russian Revolution, Clement Voroshilov (Klimenti Woroshilow, KW or KV for short) - has almost slipped into obscurity in its shadow. While the T-34 was a medium tank by the standards of the times, the KV ranked among the heavy tanks and became the forerunner of the menacing Joseph Stalin tank, which appeared in the last years of the war and was the direct ancestor of today's T-72 Russian tanks. As of 1939 Russia had only the T-35 heavy tank, plus a few of its forerunners, the T-32. It was a giant with five turrets and a ten-man (!) crew. It still got into action against the German Wehrmacht in 1941 but had very little effect, since it showed too many weaknesses: Its armor protected only against small-caliber bullets and shrapnel, its steering had...

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