Current Affairs New school project to teach children injustices of Communist regime
It's just over two weeks until the 16th anniversary of the start of the Velvet Revolution that brought down Communism in Czechoslovakia. But how much do the nation's schoolchildren know about what happened here between 1948 and 1989? Not much, says the leading human rights group People in Need. Throughout November they're visiting schools with documentary films detailing the excesses and cruelties of Communism. They're also bringing with them victims of the regime to share their experiences with pupils. One of them was Jan Wiener, now 85, who escaped the Nazis as a Jewish teenager and later fought in the RAF. After the war, he was rewarded by the Communists with a prison sentence. Rob Cameron spoke to him at the launch of the project in Prague.
Jan Wiener
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