A principal has apologized and taken “full responsibility” for instigating turmoil at a top-performing Boston elementary school after he decided to include communist dictators on a bulletin board celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month.

Brendan McGrath, just weeks into his first year at the Perry School in Southie, says the display has been removed, admitting that the bulletin board proved problematic and raised sharp concerns from parents and staffers.

The board featured illustrations of Cuban President Fidel Castro and Argentine President Juan Peron and revolutionary Ernesto Che Guevera. Each poster included quotes from the figures. Historians have put the death total under the communist regimes in the tens of thousands.

Other iconic Hispanic characters were also displayed, such as singer

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