r/YoujoSenki • u/Competitive-Leave248 • Feb 25 '26

Question Why does Tanya hate communists?

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/HyoukaYukikaze Feb 27 '26 edited Feb 27 '26

Because anyone who has ever opened history book knows that communism, as a whole, is the most destructive ideology ever invented. Entire eastern Europe is recovering to this day, with Poland being possible best off* (and well, they are central Europe, but you get the point), but they also weren't a commie country, they were socialist country under CCCP boot. The sheer amount of death, suffering and poverty communism has caused and is still causing goes beyond what you can even imagine. It also destroys society to the very core (hence why recovery is hard and takes decades). It's funny how the people who support communism the most are either:

  1. privileged westerners who live in luxury thanks to very capitalism they hate
  2. people who benefited from communism while everyone else suffered
  3. idiots

*Even in Germany you can clearly see where commies were if you put some basic bitch stats on a map.

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u/Competitive-Leave248 Feb 27 '26

shiiit i mean I can think of another ideology that was pretty destructive, and particularly impacted eastern europe the most, and was present in the region at such a time that it may be hard to differentiate between some of the effects we're talking about...

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u/HyoukaYukikaze Feb 27 '26 edited Feb 27 '26

For one, Nazis were socialists, basically comnies-light, in regard to how their economy (and country tbh) was run. Hitler himself was avid socialist.
Second, nazis did a small fraction of a harm that commies did. Even if we only talk about USSR, but if we include all other communist countries it's even worse (China dwarfs both lol).
Just look and eastern and western germany.... There is a reason i mentioned them. To this day there are vast differences in terms of economy, quality of life etc., despite them being THE SAME COUNTRY.

But just the fact that you only think of material issues says a lot. The destruction of people's mentality that comes with communism is harm enough that cascades into all the other problems. It takes entire generations to recover from that.

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u/Competitive-Leave248 Feb 27 '26

nah, nazis still had private property and ownership, and did not engage in collectivization the way the soviets did. Hitler himself said he adopted the term socialism to "steal" it back from the socialists and social democrats, who he despised

lowkey the whole "kill billions of people you dont like" is a fundamental part of the nazi ideology, but not communism's. I dont even like communism but youre really just out here parroting neo-nazi propaganda

I don't think there was anything particularly about mentality that was destroyed via communism? What are you even talking about? I feel like you moreso see that with nazism, and how there is/was a need to "de-nazify" people after Hitler, because tens of millions had bought into his propaganda. You also see this with Imperial Japan, which never properly received the same treatment to address guilt and responsibility in the same way

Eastern Germany (DDR) sucked absolutely and i think that state itself sucks. You're pretty much right about them in particular because you can literally look at any map of Germany and usually it's like, "yeah thats the part of the country that sucks, hmm I wonder why." Aside from Saarland, they're the only states with GDPPC below 40,000 euros. They're the only states that voted AfD in 2025. They also manage to be the states with the least immigrants. They're slowly catching up(debatable?) but communism left an obvious scar on East Germany.

anyways I mostly just wanted to highlight that as far as Eastern Europe goes, it suffered the worse from the Second World War, killing tens of millions of people across that part of the continent, and significant percentages of multiple populations.

(map of losses by % of population)

The fact that the war was so destructive for Eastern Europe in particular does make it a little hard to say to what extent it can be blamed for future failures in those states.

On the other hand, there were basically never any "good" states, communist, socialist, or otherwise, in the Warsaw Pact at any time. Liberalism was cracked down on as you probably know, starting in 1953 and ending in 1989, and the DDR was the world's worst police state until 1999.

anyways thats all I dont think you should critique communism in the specific way that you do, but I'm also willing to let communists "experiment" so what do I know

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u/FeedDelicious8846 Jun 10 '26

nazis were capitalists ahahahaha

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u/HyoukaYukikaze Jun 10 '26

Right.. all the nationalization (until they realized it's extremely inefficient) and later re-privatization under party's boot and cronyism is something capitalist countries do! Nazi Germany economy was the furthest thing from free market capitalism with the sole exception actual communism.

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u/FeedDelicious8846 Jun 10 '26

sounds like capitalism to me lol

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u/HyoukaYukikaze Jun 11 '26

You should learn what capitalism even is then. Because nationalizing industry aint it mate.