Moving Towards New Meanings. 9 May in the Balkans

... see that they contain completely different holiday dates. For example, the beginning of the anti-Fascist uprising is remembered (June 22 is Anti-Fascist Struggle Day in Croatia, with the same holiday being celebrated on October 11 in Macedonia), while Slovenia celebrates the Day of Uprising Against Occupation (April 27). Another memorable date is May 15, the real end of military operations in Yugoslavia. However, as all these dates are associated with the Socialist concept of Victory, they are not shared by the members of other ideological camps. For example, Croats have remembrance days to commemorate the victims of “Communist repression”....