Moving Towards New Meanings. 9 May in the Balkans
... Bosnian), Ljubljana and Zagreb (May 8–9). Another memorable date is the breaking of the Syrmian frontline (April 12, 1945). In addition, the Socialist Yugoslavia also marked the emergence of the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia (AVNOJ) and the republican councils: the State Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Croatia (ZAVNOH), the Anti-Fascist Assembly for the National Liberation of Serbia (ASNOS), the Montenegrin Anti-Fascist Assembly of National Liberation (CASNO), and others. These dates were of major importance because it is the republican councils that served as the prototype of the republics that joined the Socialist Federal ...