Anti-Fascist Struggle Day

Anti-Fascist Struggle Day (Croatian: Dan antifašističke borbe) is a legally mandated public holiday in Croatia. It is observed on 22 June and commemorates the formation of the First Sisak Partisan Detachment (a Communist-led guerrilla unit) in the Axis-allied Independent State of Croatia on 22 June 1941. On that day, Germany attacked the Soviet Union and the Communist Party of Yugoslavia (CPY) received orders from the Moscow-based Comintern to come to the Soviet Union′s aid.[1] Prior to that, although Yugoslavia had been routed and occupied by Germany and Italy in mid-April 1941, the CPY had not rendered active resistance until ordered to do so by Moscow,[1] as Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia had adhered to the non-aggression pact the parties had signed in August 1939.

Anti-Fascist Struggle Day
Observed byCroatia
Date22 June
Next time22 June 2022 (2022-06-22)
Frequencyannual

The public holiday was introduced by the Croatian Parliament in 1991[2] and replaced a similar commemoration on 27 July, the so called "Day of the Uprising of the People of Croatia", that had been an official holiday in the Socialist Republic of Croatia and alluded to the Srb uprising.[3]

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References
  1. Ramet, Sabrina (2006). The Three Yugoslavias: State-Building and Legitimation, 1918–2005. New York: Indiana University Press. p. 142. ISBN 0-253-34656-8.
  2. Croatian Parliament (21 March 1991). "Zakon o blagdanima i neradnim danima u Republici Hrvatskoj". Narodne novine (in Croatian) (14/91). Retrieved 22 June 2020.
  3. "Croatian Right-Wingers Seek to Disrupt WWII Uprising Anniversary". Balkan Insight. 26 July 2021.

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