Day of the anti-fascist struggle

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Brezovica Memorial Park near Sisak

The day of the anti-fascist struggle ( Croatian Dan antifašističke borbe ) is celebrated in Croatia on June 22 of each year as a national holiday .

It is celebrated in memory of June 22, 1941 . On the day of the German attack on the Soviet Union , the first Croatian partisan unit was established in the Brezovica forest near Sisak . This was the first anti-fascist military unit not only in Croatia , but also in all of later Yugoslavia .

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