Whenever you read extraordinary news, you could do a quick reality check. (Occam, where's your razor?) As long you have endless stockpiles of semi-viable Cold War era tanks, sending WW2 tanks that can be penetrated from the sides by a modern rifle grenade to a warzone would be beyond retarded. Especially so if you want them to act as main battle tanks - and the light tank concept was long ago outdated and replaced by recon vehicles and IFV's.
Sure, I can envision T-34's and Shermans still slugging it out in the remote part of some particularly poor and backward developing country, but not much elsewhere, unless we're talking some sort of "Der Untergang" scenario when everything that still moves will be used until it cannot move.
