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There was a national Communist Party as well as several Cominterns. Communists are pretty big on democratic centralism.

"Several cominterns" - each country had its communist party, meaning a certain level of decentralization.

"Comintern" means "Communist International"--meant to guide the various national parties.

Besides, I don’t usually think of individual national governments as the proper level at which something qualifies as decentralized.