Hello and the History Hour podcast from the BBC World Service with me Max Pearson the past brought to life by those who were there.

This week the life of black GIs in the Second World War.

And the driver came back and said you are supposed to sit in the back of the bus.

Here you've got about 15 or 20 prisoners of war.

They can sit in the front of the bus, but you still must go to the back of the bus.

What kind of America is this?

Plus the moment when the world woke up to the plight of the bees, tension in South India over a supposed violation of a Hindu temple,

and the birth of a Bouja as Nigeria's capital.

It's a piece of alienated real estate, which has been plunked in the middle of an inclement environment.

The whole thing is a fake.

But we begin this week by revisiting the demise of the Chalchescu regime in Romania.

It was 30 years ago, during the European winter of 1989, that communism began to lose its

hold in Eastern Europe, but few communist regimes had been as and began in the Western city of Timashwara where a local pastor,

Laus Lautauchez took a stand against the authorities and his loyal parishioners stood with him.

Luslau Tocheschis has been speaking to Rebecca Kesby about the fall of the Chauchezkus and how the revolution

started outside his own house.

The unrest started in Timishwara in Transylvania following the arrest of

Pastor Laslau Tokesh and...

Laslo Tokesh who's an outspoken critic of the government refused to leave when

the secret police came to arrest him.

I did not want to become a revolutionary.

I could not imagine that we have any chance to defeat the regime.

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