Most European countries were dictatorships at one time or another. Germany was a pretty solid dictatorship. Italy, Spain,Portugal, Greece, Romania,Hungary, USSR, Poland, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Albania, Finland, etc were all dictatorships. The UK was not a real democracy till 1994, when its Hong Kong subjects were allowed to vote. The USA was not a real democracy till 1965, when blacks in the South could vote.