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In December 1960, the first M60 tanks arrived in the 3rd Armored Division of the U.S Army in Germany. In early January 1961, this information was passed on to Marshal Vasily Chuikov, Chief of the Soviet Armed Forces, Deputy Minister of Defense, and famed commander of the Soviet defense of Stalingrad. The Soviet Army had just concluded its future medium tank programme in failure, and Premier Nikita Khrushchev had hamstrung the development of conventional tanks in favor of new, but immature space-age missile technology.

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