It's no contradiction when the process in which the majority is supposed to express its will is rigged. Check the previous Belarus thread (by soj yesterday or the day before, on the frontpage) for more on this (discussion between me and blackhawk).

Besides the fact that a dictatorship does not even bother to hold elections in the first place...

Most dictatorships of the 20th century held elections. Sham elections, rigged elections, but elections.

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One whose delusions are out of fashion.}