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11. Why are Communist countries all one-party dictatorships?
WHAT IS POLITICS?
Central Planning Without a Market Is Not an Inherent Merit of Socialism
Every communist country thus far has been a dictatorship. All of them except for one, Russia, started on purpose as dictatorships. The only wealthier countries that had communist governments were Eastern European countries like East Germany and Czechoslovakia where communism was basically imposed by the Soviet Union after World War II.
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