Today, Croatia celebrates the Day of Anti-Fascist Struggle, which is celebrated in memory of June 22, 1941, when the First Sisak Partisan Detachment was founded in the Brezovica forest near Sisak.
It was the first anti-fascist detachment in Croatia and occupied Europe in the Second World War, and its establishment marked the beginning of the organized anti-fascist struggle in these areas, writes Medija servis and reports Index.hr.
"They got together and said that they were actually going to fight against the most powerful war machine, which at that moment was so incredibly successful that their move looked like madness, and more than crazy courage," said historian Tvrtko Jakovina.
The detachment had 77 fighters, they mainly carried out diversions, and 38 of them saw the end of the Second World War. The first partisan detachment from Sisak led more than 500.000 Croatian citizens to fight against the fascist and Nazi occupiers in Croatia and in the territory of the former Yugoslavia.
"It is important that young people learn the truth"
Marking that date is therefore very important for Croatian history, Jakovina points out.
"It is important because Europe and the world as it exists today are based on what happened between 1939 and 1945, that is, on the victory over the essence of evil represented by the war machine that Hitler created," says Jakovina.
The President of the Association of Anti-Fascist Fighters, Ratko Maričić, says that it is important to mark this date so that young people learn the truth about a generation that left a deep mark on recent Croatian history.
"We are faced with the fact that in the last twenty years our young generations have not quite learned about all historical events very well. It is important that they learn the truth, the truth is something that is undeniable, it can be viewed from one side or the other, it can can be relativized, but it is always the truth and remains undefeated," Maričić emphasized.
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