Stabilizers

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I was looking through the OOB and noticed that all the US tanks lost their stabilizers. I know that post WW2, they were sometimes pulled by national guard units because they were easy to break and hard to maintain, but I assume regular Army units kept theirs on.
While the early stabilizers such as the Sherman and Stuart had were not stabilizers as we know them today, they were still useful in that they reduced the wait time when firing from a short halt.
After I noticed that I started looking and found that the Soviet Armor(T-54/55 series)has a stabilizer rating of 2!. AFAIK, the first Soviet MBT with any sort of stabilizer was the T-62, which had the same sort of single axis system the Sherman had.
So why 2 for the Soviets and 0 for the Pattons, which had the first electro-mechanical stabilizer, IIRC?
Has this been that way for long and I just noticed ( I'm not an equipment guy) or is it a 5.0 bug? Or is it another example of Soviet propaganda? Like the Majic Sabots that plagued MBT for the last few years?
The ONLY thing the Soviets did well was propaganda. So anything you read from them needs to be taken with a grain of salt. Or maybe a cup. 10 pound bags in some cases.
Shortreengage, I seek your expert opinion.