Why was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) called that when they were communists?
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You can call your country whatever you want it to be. There’s nobody forcing a country to name itself consistent with it’s functional government, or an accurate description of the country.
As an example, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. I don’t think anyone would argue it’s Democratic, nor a Republic.
Another example, the United States of America. America should consist of all of North and South America. But nobody is telling Uncle Sam to rename itself to the United States of the Middle Bit of North America. God Bless the US of MBNA!
China, in it’s native tongue, is directly translated as “Middle Country”. That’s not exactly accurate on the international stage, but no one’s pushing to change the name.
Uzbekistan might be majority Uzbek, but there are more than Uzbek’s living there.
A name’s a name. It’s just what people called the country.
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