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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.