Victory Day
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Yugoslavia was not to participate in the war, but it was not to prevent the passage of German troops through its territory to attack Greece. During the popular unrest on March 27, a coup took place in the country, and a new pro-British government came to power.
On April 6, Germany attacked both Greece and Yugoslavia, and on April 17, Yugoslavia surrendered. The territory of Yugoslavia was divided among four occupying countries.
On June 22, after the German attack on the USSR, the first people’s liberation detachment was formed in Croatia. Soon, by the forces of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, the people’s liberation movement expanded throughout the country (mainly by guerrilla methods), and was headed by Josip Broz Tito.
On the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina, included in the puppet Independent State of Croatia, the general leadership of the people's liberation struggle was carried out by the State Anti-Fascist Assembly of the People's Liberation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ZAVNOBiH) headed by Vojislav Ketsmanovich. A total of three meetings were held. The first, the constituent, approved representatives from Bosnia and Herzegovina in the Antifascist Council for the People’s Liberation of Yugoslavia and adopted a number of decisions on the post-war structure of Bosnia and Herzegovina. In particular, BiH was to become one of the first-law republics of the future federal Yugoslavia, in which all peoples would have the same rights. The second and third sessions merely clarified and specified these decisions.
In general, the People’s Liberation War was successful, and with the help of the Allies in the spring of 1945. Yugoslavia completely got rid of the German occupiers.
May 9 was previously a Yugoslav state holiday - Victory Day. Today it is not in any of the former republics except Serbia and one of the two entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Republika Srpska.
When trying to draft a unified holiday law, another entity, the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, did not object, but tried to call 9 May Europe Day or even EU Day, since it was on this day in 1950 that the idea of creating a European Coal and Steel Community, which later became today's European Union, was put forward.