The Daily Bias - Cutting the crap since 2005

I seem to run into surprise after surprise these days, with icon after icon of the left being outed as falling somewhat short of the idealistic people they have been portrayed as. First Marx was outed as an ultracapitalist stocktrader and serial freeloader, then uncle Ho turned out to be a would-be collaborator with the French imperialists, and now this: Salvador Allende is outed as a secret proto-nazi. The Telegraph reports:

Mr Farias, who teaches at the Latin American Institute of Berlin's Free University, said: "I thought I would look at what he had done, and looked at his writings, and this dissertation came up."

Only 18 pages of the dissertation, called Mental Hygiene and Delinquency, have previously been published, a fact that aroused the historian's suspicions.

"I wanted to read the whole thing but couldn't find it. Eventually at the university I came across a mountain of old doctoral theses covered in dust. Like I miracle I found his and it was 160 pages long.

"Before reading the dissertation he handed it to the Allende Foundation in Santiago for authentication.

"They gave me a copy, and I started to read it," he said. "I thought I had gone crazy. . . there was a theory which he praised, that homosexuality being a crime, it could be corrected with surgery - small holes would be made in the stomach, into which small pieces of testicle would be inserted. This would make the person heterosexual. Then he writes about different races, and their predeliction for certain crimes, he says Jews are genetically programmed to commit fraud, theft and usury. This is pure Nazi theory, that he says it was genetic."

Allendes writings also come with a Chilenian master race, no less:

As for Chileans, Mr Farias said the dissertation quoted a theory that the Spaniards' 300-year fight to colonise Chile had weeded out the weak from both Spanish and native Indian populations, leaving the proud Chileans with the best from both races.

It does seem that Allende wasnt too thrilled with the master race he had been dealt, however, so he brought in help from Nazi Germany to help formulate a law that could help him prevent undesirables from breeding (source: Politiken - the translation is mine):

....that Allende as the minister of health in a Chilenian peoples´s front-government 1938-41 brought the two nazis E. Brücher og Hans Betzhold to Chile, so they could help him formulate a planned law on forced sterilizations of the mentally retarded

And Allendes collaboration doesnt end there (Telegraph again):

He was minister in 1939 and I found in the political archive of the foreign office, files that the Nazis were bribing three Chilean ministers. There were papers showing [Nazi foreign minister] Ribbentrop paying the ministers, including Allende. They each got 300,000 Reichmarks."

He said the money was to ensure the Chilean government bought weapons stolen from Poland after 1939. The deal never came off, but Mr Farias said he found a document written by the German ambassador saying the money was not wasted as Nazi ideas were being spread in Chile.

And Mr Allende, as health minister, did propose a Bill on compulsory sterilisation of the mentally ill and chronic alcoholics, said Mr Farias. "Allende was more radical in this than Hitler was at the time," he said. The Bill was opposed by the medical profession in Chile and never reached parliament.

The thing that has to REALLY bug the radical left has to be this, though:

Mr Farias said the dissertation also attacked revolutionaries, saying that although they might appear normal, they were actually sociopaths.

You can almost hear their hearts breaking, cant you?? :-)

# posted by Henrik @ 2:58 PM