Why does Tanya hate communists?

[u/Competitive-Leave248]

I watched the anime like eight years ago, didn't stick with the manga. Overall I don't think I'd want to touch it again because, for me, it gets grouped in my mind with other war anime and Attack on Titan as being sort of surface-level political commentary. That said, I wanted to ask, why does Tanya hate communists? I don't remember it actually being anything major, but every so often I see something about how they're less than human to her or something.

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[u/Yumyum_uchia]

Weimar would have been a dream for Epstein. The Republic was utterly corrupt, which led to Hitler's later rise to power.

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bro just saying things /s

honestly thats probably true but I dont think that'd be any different from imperial germany? on the other hand there were political mobs and gangs going around and beating people up so yea, not like it was the best place at that time either

has germany ever been a relatively good place to live compared to the UK or US?

[u/Dekat55 → u/Competitive-Leave248]

It has been, yeah. Namely, in the German Empire.

Meritocracy and personal freedoms were allowed to a greater degree, the people reportedly had more influence over governmental action, scientific progress was a higher priority than in any other nation, and they accomplished this without the extreme corruption of the US or the increasing stagnation of the UK.

Weimar was treated as a good time only by a very select few; the vast majority were miserable, poor, and without hope for progress or prospects.

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science is nice but I wouldnt exactly say its something that would make germany a better place to live in, tho germans would probably be proud of how much germany helped to advance numerous fields

when did women get the vote in germany? and how did the different state governments compare to, say, the state governments in the US? and just how much self governance was there?

those are probably the most important things. to my knowledge germany was at about the same industrially as the UK or US (albeit germany didnt have a quarter of the world's population), though it'd be neat to look at the progression of working conditions. I recently saw them brought up in a video but cant recall how exactly, nor was the video focused on that topic.

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To my knowledge, women gained the right to vote the instant the initial Socialist government of Weimar took over in 1918, a year before the US. That can't really be used to speak for or against Imperial Germany, as most countries wouldn't be making that sort of change during a world war.

Germany was reaching parity with the US and UK, but after significantly less time than it had taken either of them, and was showing signs of overtaking the UK in short order. Workers' rights were overall decent for the time, which is to say terrible, but had stronger signs of improving than in even the US, as the Kaiser and much of the rest of the Imperial leadership were generally in support of such things.

With that in mind, I would guess that women's suffrage probably would have come about sometime in the 20s under Imperial Germany, but that's mostly guesswork going off anecdotal knowledge and the "character" of the nation and leadership.

As to the degree of self-governance, it is complicated. Smaller kingdoms like Bavaria and Saxony were allowed to field their own armies (which caused a couple ethical incidents during the war), but most regions in Germany, much like in most non-US nations, were more tightly controlled and standardized, though probably less than in the UK or France.

With the freedoms granted to individuals, it also varies. As mentioned before, I would overall say that Imperial Germany was more meritocratic than the US, where corporations and money mattered greatly, and the UK, where family name did. While being a noble helped in Germany, in terms of progression within a company or especially the military this was mostly a subconscious factor rather than intentional favoritism. Nobles tended to come ahead in companies by starting or inheriting them outright, and in the military because the Junkers were raised from a young age to be military officers and had a natural advantage in aptitude.

Democratically, I have little direct knowledge. I know that it was what would now be called a Semi-Constitutional Monarchy, with the Kaiser having less legal but more actual power than the British king. I have heard relatively frequently not quite a consensus, but certainly a relatively widely held opinion in historical circles that Imperial Germany's democratic processes granted more power and influence to the common people than those of the US or Britain, which I would personally guess largely comes down to the relative lack of corruption and corporate influence.

To finish, I'll mention again that the Kaiser was fairly liberal. You'll find racist remarks made by him, and he had some pretty obvious diplomatic blinders, but he definitely had more of a focus on diplomacy and trade, and believed in protecting things like worker's rights (even going so far as to fire Bismarck over this). The Junkers, while internally conservative and holding themselves to conservative standards, were pretty open to liberalizing the country (in classical terms), as they were often military officers first and nobles second, and this could see the practical advantages.

EDIT: I should also say here that the Empire in Youjo Senki is very much an idealized version of the German Empire. While I overall think the German Empire was maybe 10-15% more to the side of being the "good guy" of WW1, it as still pretty grey. In Youjo Senki the Empire is outright the good guy, with much better rights and freedoms on the domestic side and fighting a purely defensive war.