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Many Americans worried that citizens of Japanese ancestry would act as spies or saboteurs for the Japanese government. Fear — not evidence — drove the U.S. to place over 127,000 Japanese-Americans in concentration camps for the duration of WWII. Over 127,000 United States citizens were imprisoned during World War II.
1) Russia, 2) China, 3) North Korea, etc.
During the 1848 Springtime of Peoples, revolutionaries in the Italian states established "republics", since they were democratic in nature, although they soon fell to tyrannical rule.