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Shan said:
If you look at the (real) East German OOB at various times then you see (with sources such as the book I mentioned) then you see how big the difference of, say, theoretically available equipmnt to the Soviets was, when compared to what was made available to WP countries and how long it took to equip their units with any relevant numbers. In the late 60s/early 70s, MMR divisions still had a fair share of upgraded T-34/85s, and in the late 70s/early 80s these were exchanged for T-54s, and so on. But even at that time, a lot of T-34s were still in storage as a emergency reserve... and would have shown up on the battlefield - in an extreme case, imagine a t-34/80 unit against the very first M-1s or Leo2s... but it could have happened.
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Well, the T34s weren't kept maintenanced in the 80s anymore
At least not in Potsdam military district...
It's always good to remember that the T-55 was "the" MBT, with an emphasis on main, in the NVA, and many upgrades were produced in country. Better sights, range finders (my father told me a friend of him in a tank batallion said they even got laser range finders for them in 1988...) Mostly all the stuff we could produce that the soviets couldn't do as good. .. Unfortunately it'S nearly impossible to find actual written documents on all that as its not publicly available, as nobody bothers to make it so...