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This was posed in a paper by Hanna Neumann (1967), but I cannot find the solution. 



Non-abelian variety of groups in which finite groups are abelian
The answer to Neumann's question is yes. A variety was constructed by Olshanskii , TY - JOUR
AU - Ol'shanskiĭ, A.,
Varieties in which all finite groups are abelian
DO - 10.1070/SM1986v054n01ABEH002960
Mathematics of the USSR-Sbornik He also constructed nonabelian varieties where every periodic group is abelian. I think all these can be found in Olshanskii's book "Geometry of defining relations".


