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They weren't, Mao was democratically recalled, even. Stalin was elected as well, and neither had total control.
Is having a single party all it takes to not be democratic, in your eyes? Even if everything is decided democratically?
Yes, it absolutely does, which is why China has large public infrastructure projects, large levels of state planning, is beating climate goals, and has had climbing metrics for the proletariat, instead of falling metrics.
Yet you speak endlessly as a left anticommunist. Is the only communism you support the fictional kind in your fantasies?
These metrics rose with Communism and fell with Capitalism. It's cut and dry why they happened.
The literal CIA didn't believe Stalin was totalitarian, and I proved it to be democratic with an infographic on how it functioned. You can even read Soviet Democracy by Pat Sloan to see how it functioned.
Please, read a history book instead of parroting state propaganda, and read Marx, Engels, Lenin, and other Marxists for theory, instead of wikipedia.