I would say it's more like:This sounds like a case of "the Germans have theirs so we must have ours too" yeah right!!!
Q: "What kind of tanks did you destroy?"
A: "Angual and bloody big."
Q: "Must be Tigers then."
A: "Must be. They were big"
Not really. There were hude numbers of light tank in 1941/42/43 era. Remember Kolobanov's ambush killed mostly PzKpfw-II's and 38(t)'s.The Russians had a lot fewer targets to shoot at then the Germans, which leads me to believe that these figures were invented by some very bright stalin-heads!