Salvador Allende, the late socialist president of Chile, made lots of scary assertions in his secret 1933 doctoral dissertation. Along with calling Jews criminals and wanting to sterilize alcoholics and the mentally ill, he also approved of a cure for homosexuality involving making small holes in one’s stomach and inserting testicle pieces to make the person straight.

Berlin: Salvador Allende, the socialist president of Chile who was killed during a CIA-backed coup in 1973, was an anti-Semite who held fascist ideas in his youth, says a new book which has split Chile.

The book, Salvador Allende: Antisemitism and Euthanasia, will shock those around the world who revere the late president as a socialist martyr deposed by the right-wing General Augusto Pinochet with the backing of Washington and big business.

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