For the same reason the Republicans and the Democrats are named that way I guess

Hey get this, evil people lie. On purpose

Can't believe you'd ask this question and leave out the People's Republic of China.

Authoritarians love nothing more than to deny others the correct language to make progress and to write history.

They're fraudsters.

Same reason nazis put socialist in name but promptly killed off socialists and trade unions.

The people are democratic.

The government, not so much.

Like Citizens United bringing the division and destruction

Same reason the USA has 'United' in its name.

The more corrupt the leaders of a country are, the harder they protest that the country is anything but.

Because it's funny

Because they're too cowardly to own what they are

It’s a reflection of the state’s earlier aspirations—the justification it used to overthrow the preceding authoritarian state.

The problem is, the more drastic the social and political changes are that the new regime is trying to enact—and the more entrenched the preceding regime was—the more tempting it is to lean on authoritarian vanguardist methods to cut through the pushback. But once they start down that path, the means inevitably become the ends and everything winds up back where it started.

You can just say whatever you want, words dont mean anything and people will just go with it. Its just marketing

"Neither democratic, nor the people's, nor a republic."

Same reason so many US Republican-created laws that restrict freedom are named after Freedom.

Because revolutions are unreliable. A communist revolution happened, the revolutionaries were flying red flags and fighting to end the old order and bring in a communist utopia. But someone who wanted power and didn't care about the ideals took charge, probably murdered the communist leadership and set up an authoritarian government under the name given by the communist revolutionaries.

The people's republic of China is different - the communists won and named their country revolutionary style, but found themselves in charge of a massive high population empire. They became authoritarian to manage the country (because communism isn't able to manage even a small country)

Because lying is overpowered.

So that absolute morons can say stuff like "the Nazis were socialist, it's right there in their name"

Is all part of the narrative. More they control it, more they look like the "good guys".

Probably for the same reasons you do not visit the forum, do not own slaves, and let women vote. You have a different understanding of democracy than the ancient Greeks. That is how it is with them too.

Branding!

Because they started off as communist revolutions

It's an introductory lie. It supposed to get you used to lying.

It doesn't work on everybody. You must be one of "THOSE".

same as why maga says its going to make things great or make bills they call beutiful.

Cause you expect the west hegemonic definition of democratic.