About the book: 2021 / One of the most “main questions” of the Great Patriotic War - what needs to be done to ensure that the Red Army does not retreat to Moscow, Leningrad and Stalingrad? All the literature “about the fallen” during this period revolves around these tasks. There are more than enough “recipes”: from making friends with Hitler to “we would give up then, sit in Munich and drink “Bavarian”. The main “mistake” lies in the weakness of the Red Army’s anti-tank equipment and the underestimation of Germany’s capabilities to quickly create heavy TV and T-VI, which is why interesting projects were stopped: the KV-3 tank and the ZiS-2 gun. The tanks tried to hit with a shortened USV cannon, which could not fight the Tigers. It was lightened by making the ZiS-3, and the Germans fired from our 76-mm F-22, which we had discontinued. In a hurry, the D-5T and the later ZIS-S-53, adopted for tanks, were noticeably inferior to the 75 and 88 mm guns of the Germans. These problems could be “resolved” by the KV-3, but not in the amount of two. A Brahman from Ceylon sent a former tanker from the 21st century to sort out these problems..