Consent is not old. What you are describing was so common with Soviet communists because it was common in Russia back then in general.
My great grandmother was a Pontic Greek who lived in Trabzon. She got married and had her first kid at age 14. It is really shocking when you hear about that today but no one really ever saw it as particularly weird because it was a normal thing in these societies during the first half of the 20th century. In the US, it wasn't until the 1920s that the age of consent was raised to 16-18 in most places.
Consent was not a concern until very recently. The taboo was sex before marriage, not consent. Basically if you were married, you were automatically consenting, and in many cases, you couldn't even consent to getting married.
EDIT: @MagisterSinister did a really good write up about this and how that sort of stuff came to be.
Consent is not old. What you are describing was so common with Soviet communists because it was common in Russia back then in general.
My great grandmother was a Pontic Greek who lived in Trabzon. She got married and had her first kid at age 14. It is really shocking when you hear about that today but no one really ever saw it as particularly weird because it was a normal thing in these societies during the first half of the 20th century. In the US, it wasn't until the 1920s that the age of consent was raised to 16-18 in most places.
Consent was not a concern until very recently. The taboo was sex before marriage, not consent. Basically if you were married, you were automatically consenting, and in many cases, you couldn't even consent to getting married.
EDIT: @MagisterSinister did a really good write up about this and how that sort of stuff came to be.