Was the Soviet Union a democracy before Stalin?

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>>2478319
Dumas were sort of democratic. I highly doubt Lenin's dictatorship of the proletariat could be classified as a democracy in any existing sense

>>2478340
Now thinking to myself I'm not even sure if Lenin's dictatorship belonged to the proletariat

At no point was the Soviet Union a democracy. Lenin had no patience for that kind of shit. What the cpsu(b) said went, and do dissent was either suppressed or ignored, tending toward the former. Political repression, with the attendant prison camps, mass executions, etc, was a Soviet thing from the very start. The whole Lenin good, stalin bad thing is ludicrously wrong.

>>2478319
They had democratic centralism

Democracy is just a fucking meme word. Even it's most fanatical proponents have proven consistently incapable of providing any coherent definition for it.

>>2478517
Fuck off edgelord, grownups are talking.