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That reminds me, the main remembrance days here are 4 and 5 May. On 4 May, mainly in the evening, is the 'death remembrance', which started in 1945 to commemorate the people who have died in WW2, but now includes all Dutch victims of wars and armed conflicts ever since. The main thing of that day is at 20:00, when everyone is silent for two minutes (trains stop driving, radio stations stop their broadcasts, and so on). Generally this is filled to the brink with people attending the national ceremony, where the king and some others lay down some wreaths. Now of course it was empty, apart from the king, his wife and some others conducting the ceremony (but obviously while keeping the distance from each other, as is necessary).

 

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Then on 5 May it's what could be translated to 'Liberation Day', a free day for many and generally a day with music festivals and such all over the country. That was of course cancelled now, so it wasn't much special apart from TV broadcasting specials and movies and stuff all day long.

 

This is the first time I've heard of 8 May being a thing, so that's interesting.

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3 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

This is the first time I've heard of 8 May being a thing, so that's interesting.

 

Here it is 8th May. It is a national holiday, all offices and stores are closed. The day is officially named "Deň víťazstva nad fašizmom" "Day of victory over Fascism"

 

Under the communism era, it was celebrated one day later - 9th May as ordered by USSR, after the fall of communism we returned to the 8th May

 

(however Slovakia was liberated the 3rd May and Czechia on 9th May when Prague was fnally liberated"

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1 hour ago, hckosice said:

 

Here it is 8th May. It is a national holiday, all offices and stores are closed. The day is officially named "Deň víťazstva nad fašizmom" "Day of victory over Fascism"

 

Under the communism era, it was celebrated one day later - 9th May as ordered by USSR, after the fall of communism we returned to the 8th May

 

(however Slovakia was liberated the 3rd May and Czechia on 9th May when Prague was fnally liberated"

 

Yeah, this is the thing we use (on 5 May the Germans surrendered to the Canadian forces, the documents were signed a day later because nobody could find a typewriter in the entire city). Well, 3 May, 5 May, 8 May....goodbye Nazis :p 

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3 hours ago, dcro said:

When you realize that even Tajikistan has a public holiday celebrating VE, and yet there is no such thing here. :wacko:

Well, not to point fingers, but the Croatians have a reputation for helping said oppressors...

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Just now, Olympian1010 said:

Well, not to point fingers, but the Croatians have a reputation for helping said oppressors...

I’m not saying that’s my personal view, I’m just saying that many Yugoslavs disliked Croatia for a long time because the facists that took power there in the early 40s.

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3 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

Well, not to point fingers, but the Croatians have a reputation for helping said oppressors...

 

Majority of European nations don't have VE as public holiday.

 

Obviously we condemn fascism and have a public holiday dedicated to the battle against fascism on our own (just not on the VE)...

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Happy Olympic Day everyone!

 

Is anyone doing anything to make the occasion or celebrate?

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10 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

Happy Olympic Day everyone!

 

Is anyone doing anything to make the occasion or celebrate?

Happy Olympic Day!

 

Lots of Olympic, Professional, and International athletes have posted stuff on Instagram using the hashtag #OlympicDay kind of cool to follow their stories and what not.

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