At the same time next door, woman in finland did have the right to vote. (since 1906 ).
It's worth noting that Finland's early adoption of women's suffrage in 1906 was a reflection of the relative progressiveness of the Russian Empire, of which Finland was a part until 1917. To be precise, the progressiveness of the Russian Imperial urban culture.
Since WWI, Eastern Europe saw the rise of peasant nationalism, where rural populations took over cities - with tragic outcomes for the urban elites. The arrival of the revolution was marked not so much by the advent of social justice as by the emergence of phenomena like gang rapes. This was fueled both by the idea of absolute sexual freedom, initially actively promoted by the Bolsheviks, and by the complete absence of a legal provision for the crime of
rape. In breaks between debates about communism, one favorite pastime of former peasants, now workers, was the so-called
tulip: a captured girl would have her skirt tied over her head and be thrown into the bushes with her legs in the air.
A grim example is the
Chubarov Case of 1926, when 40 workers, including Communist youth leaders, brutally assaulted a young woman for six hours right in the center of Leningrad (St. Petersburg nowadays). Shockingly, the perpetrators didn’t understand their crime, as the Soviet criminal code categorized such acts as mere hooliganism. This culture of violence wasn’t unique, even newspapers like
Komsomolskaya Pravda lamented that such horrors were considered too ordinary at the time.
While Soviet Russia destroyed the old imperial elites, in Finland its Russian-Imperial elites (mostly of German origin) preserved their influence and led the country’s nationalism. Mannerheim, a former Russian imperial officer of Swedish-German origin, guided Finland into modernity without even fully learning Finnish - a testament to how saving the educated class can stabilize and elevate a nation.
I wonder what's happen after 32 years old, are they supposed to become obsolete? At the same time next door, woman in finland did have the right to vote. (since 1906 ).
You needn’t worry too much about the specific age limit - corruption is the real key here. It seems obvious that if a committee finds an attractive woman, even at 45, records of her true birthdate might conveniently disappear, and witnesses would likely stay silent. The age cap of 32 was probably more about keeping the system "safe" from exploitation by, shall we say, less desirable older women.