Came across this watching some ww2 content. In 1935 Switzerland wasn’t that democratic, thats more of a myth constantly pushed by our current day right wing blowhards (the SVP, which invented the AfD basically). There was a lack of women voting rights, there were “Verdingkinder” and " Armengenössige". So basically a lack of respect for basic human rights, which continues until this day. It was only put to bed partially (in 2018) with the total failure of the iniative “Schweizer Recht statt fremde Richter” which tried to put the national law above international law (it’s complicated, but people who know more about laws than I do were arguing that this initiative would have made an appeal to the European court of human rights basically pointless). I’d especially like to point out this: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frauenstimmrecht_in_der_Schweiz and this: Verheiratete Frauen dürfen in der Schweiz erst seit 1988 ohne die Unterschrift des Ehemanns ein eigenes Bankkonto eröffnen! So the earliest we can start talking about a real democracy is 1988, and the attitudes disregarding the poor and the socially disadvantaged / disabled survive to this day absolutely horrendous, Switzerland wasn’t anything close to a democracy before that happened submitted by /u/TastyTarget3i
Originally posted by u/TastyTarget3i on r/Switzerland