Witch-King of Angmar wrote:but the turret itself was so cramped I wonder how could two large Russians fit in, winter clothing notwithstanding
I've seen once two T-34/85 II on display, one cut open, the other complete, and I've climbed in both turrets; it was barely enough space for myself.
~The Witch-King of Angmar
Yep - Soviets/Russians tend to gave only the absolute minimum space to crew positions in most of their weapon systems (not only tanks - the motorics needed in many of their automatic guns are such that it is really an limiting factor for a bit over average lenght man, like me
), same goes still today.
Not entirely an bad thing though - Soviets at least understood that limiting the "envelope" of internal volume has an huge effect on armour protection that could be given to vehicle - it just seem that they sometimes did go a bit over the edge....
Mark V