Quote Originally Posted by lars573
sharrukin your forgetting Japan in WW1 and WW2.

WW1 Japan vs. Germany

WW2 Japan vs. US/UK+commonwealth and empire

You can say Japan was a democracy because they had a government and constitution based on the Prussian model.
In Japan between the wars that was true, but the major parties voted to dissolve themselves and were absorbed into a single party, the Imperial Rule Assistance Association (IRAA) and the military established almost complete control over the government. Indoctrination and censorship were introduced into education and the media. Naval and army officers occupied most of the important offices, including the prime minister.

There is a difference between a feeble democracy and a military dictatorship. India has a feeble democracy, and it does not operate the way we perhaps think a democracy should, but it is not a dictatorship.