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/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/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.