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Not quite true.   T-34 held a firepower, armor and mobility advantage until mid-1943.   But by mid 1942, Germans were deploying updated panzers III and IVs that would defeat it, although not equal it.    After July 1943 German Panther came into service, and substantially surpassed t-34 in armor and firepower, and matched it in tactical mobility.

But it was designed after the T34. But, and that's the deciding factor, between 1942 and 1945 less than 5000 have been produced. Even less Tigers. The T34 was as simple a concept as could be and it ruled the battlefield because of it's large production numbers whereas the Germans still relied mainly on the Panzer IV, constantly upgrading it's weapons and armaments.