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HR-CELEBRATION-STRUGGLE-Politika BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH BRIEF NEWS BULLETIN IN ENGLISH NO. 3282HINA Zagreb, June 22, 1999CROATIA MARKS DAY OF ANTI-FASCIST STRUGGLEZAGREB, June 22 (Hina) - Croatia's national holiday - the Day
of Anti-Fascist Struggle - is marked on June 22 throughout the country. It is a day when Croatians celebrate the anniversary of establishing the first partisan unit in Brezovica forest near Sisak (50 km south-east of Zagreb) in 1941. The Sisak partisan unit, under the command of Vladimir Janic Capo, was the first organised armed unit of anti-fascists in the then enslaved, occupied Europe, and the backbone of the anti-fascist movement in Croatia. In the former Yugoslavia, the establishment of the Sisak partisan unit was deliberately devalued and regarded as a matter of local importance. The then Yugoslav authorities determined that the Day of Croatian People's Uprising should be marked on July 27 as on that day in 1941 the first bullet had been fired by rebe