Yes, that happened. Was anything else going on in the world, perhaps more irreversible? One of the American internees later captained USS Excelsior, after all.
Oh, just that maybe the USA is not the world's worst example of tyranny that you seem to make it out to be. Especially in comparison to Russia, but even in comparison to some of the "more advanced" European states.
After all even with slavery, it was something America inherited, instead of going out of their way to do. Much of Europe, on the other hand, chose to murder their undesirables, and far after when America was able to finally free their slaves.
Calm yourself. I haven't made out the US as "the world's worst example of tyranny". I would like to point out the hypocrisy though, of those who criticize a person for seeking refuge from the US in Russia, because he didn't instead choose "Unicornlandia" or some other similarly perfect utopian bastion of freedom and human rights.
I'm from the US, and I am proud that we ended slavery, (a little embarrassed that it took a war, but I had no control over that), but, I am not under the impression that the US is perfect, or without the potential for improvement. Critical self-reflection is an important step on the path to self-improvement. I criticize my country because it is the one that I personally have the potential and the responsibility to affect positive changes within.
> After all even with slavery, it was something America inherited, instead of going out of their way to do.
Its true that the slave trade predates American independence, but its not as if it wasn't largely driven by the interests of wealthy Americans; it really had very little other point, which is why after the US was independent, England first both suppressed the Atlantic slave trade, and then, decades before the US did (and without a civil war) abolished slavery entirely.
> Much of Europe, on the other hand, chose to murder their undesirables, and far after when America was able to finally free their slaves.
So did the US. The Indian Wars were a real thing, after all, and ended long after the abolition of slavery.