Day of Remembrance of Croatian Victims of Freedom and Independence

Poster dedicated to the events near Bleiburg in 1945On May 15, Croatia celebrates the Day of Remembrance of Croatian Victims of the Struggle for Freedom and Independence. This is related to the events of 1945. Then in the vicinity of Austrian Bleiburg and on the road through Croatia and Slovenia.

The forces of the Yugoslav People’s Liberation Army, created by communists who won the war in Yugoslavia, killed 95,000 soldiers and officers of the army of the Independent State of Croatia, a puppet state created by the fascists, as well as a huge number of civilians accompanying them.

Croatian soldiers and officers of the NGH army fled to Austria to surrender to the Western victorious countries, but were extradited to Yugoslav partisans. Some of them died in concentration camps in communist-occupied Yugoslavia.