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The USSR was a social democracy, there can be no such thing as a "communist country".
The USSR had a democracy and many democratic elections. It was just not a liberal democracy. The USSR had a welfare state, and so was a social democracy.
Ok, now look at america and think really critically about what you just said.
Sure, there is a red party and a blue party. Sure, they have some differences socially. But economically and foreign policy wise they are the same. Pro capitalist, pro imperialist, pro fascist, pro genocide, pro bombing the shit out of anyone who has natural resources they need for their donors, American business. Or regime changing them.
They’re the same fucking party once you remove the culture war bullshit.
Sorry not obvious. Two parties might be democratic, if party A wants peace and a fair distribution of compensation for work, and part B wants endless war and exploitation of labor.
But since both American parties want the later they’re really just one party in two colors.
Why not? You vote. Parties are just an abstraction.
The more parties it has the more democratic it is? Please. Even in countries with advanced proportional representation schemes, you instead just get huge party alliances based on regionalism, and guess what, they remain capitalist bourgeoisie dictatorships.
The USSR was democratic, it was a capitalist democracy, like well, all modern democracies. Just because it came in a different form doesn't make it somehow not democratic.
Okay, that is actually a valid point. I guess my issue with Soviet elections wasn't the one party system, but how that party was propped up to be the default and most people never bothered to vote against it.
So your issue is not that it wasn't democratic, you just disagree with who they chose to vote for.
Yes, the only truly democratic elections are the ones that get the outcomes western liberals demand of them.