A People's Republic is a title used by certain republican states. It has been often used by countries adhering to communism, such as China. However, the term is not unique to communist states. Many countries adopted the title given its rather generic nature. Bangladesh, established as a liberal democracy, proclaimed a people's republic given the background of mass participation in the country's independence movement and liberation war.
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“Superior people remain kind and just even in poverty, but lowly people who become rich lord it over others.”
—Chinese proverb.
“People think they have taken quite an extraordinarily bold step forward when they have rid themselves of belief in hereditary monarchy and swear by the democratic republic. In reality, however, the state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy.”
—Friedrich Engels (1820–1895)