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EPISODE · Dec 21, 2019 · 50 MIN

The Romanian revolution

from The History Hour · host BBC World Service

In this edition the fall of the Ceaușescus in Romania in December 1989, a global panic over bees in the early 2000s and WW2 black GIs finally recognised decades after the war. Plus the building of Abuja as Nigeria's capital and a woman's right to pray in some Hindu temples in India.(Photo: The army join the revolutionaries in Romania 1989. Credit: Getty Images)

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