This is the Day of Remembrance and Respect to Victims of the Communist Regime. It’s not a public holiday, but it’s observed every year with ceremonies and wreath laying and, as the name suggests, it commemorates those who were killed or wrongfully imprisoned during the communist years between 1944 and 1989. It’s the 1st February due to the date in 1945 when the new regime consolidated their power by purging their political and ideological rivals (as well as anyone else who was inconvenient) by executing cabinet ministers, members of parliament, generals, colonels, and bankers after trial at a ‘People’s Court’.
