Hello and welcome to the History Hour podcast from the BBC World Service with me Max Pearson

events that have shaped our world brought to life by those who are there.

This week the shock of the new a young girl sees Stalinism collapse in Albania. I kind of loved Stalin and we always

thought Stalin was a great man and that there were these people who were shouting freedom and democracy,

which I didn't understand because I thought we had freedom and we had democracy.

Plus the dawn of multi-party democracy in Taiwan.

A hundred years after his death, we'll look at Marcel Proust with the help of rare archive recordings and from the Second World War the worst ever maritime disaster.

You know, it just gruesome, just off.

Most of them died and those are the things you

They're in your head you you can't get rid of it. You try hard not to remember

but that it's impossible. That's all coming up but we're going to begin

with another story from the turbulent years of liberation struggle in Africa during the last

century. From as far back as 1498 when Vasko de Gama reached the Southeast African coast, that region

was dominated by the Portuguese.

The anti-colonial movement in what was then Portuguese East Africa only really took hold in the 1960s

and today's Mozambique only became independent in 1975. But along the way, one of its founding fathers paid the ultimate price for the struggle.

Rebecca Kessby has been looking into the story of Eduardo Mondlan, the leader of Frillimo,

Mozambique's Liberation Front and Rebecca is here now Rebecca.

Hi Max, yet this is the story of a man who started out as a university professor but who

ended up leading the armed struggle against the Portuguese and was

tragically assassinated. In 1962 Eduardo Mondlan drew different opposition

groups together from across Mozambique and formed, as you mentioned,

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