That communist countries often call themselves democratic is not really that strange. Democracy comes from the Greek words demos, which means people, and kratos

That communist countries often call themselves democratic is not really that strange. Democracy comes from the Greek words demos, which means people, and kratos, while means power or rule: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy As you probably know, communism usually starts out as a mass-movement of ordinary people.