I first learned about this from a very opinionated online friend who objected to the holiday equating Communism (to which he was somewhat sympathetic) to Fascism:
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black\_Ribbon\_Day](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Ribbon_Day)
Is this day observed in your country? If so, do you have the day off of work or school and is anything specific done in observation of it? Additionally, is there controversy over it, especially in countries that have an active Communist party?
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I don’t think a lot of people have heard about it. We have a separate day to commemorate the victims of the communist regime on February 1st. But it would be a good idea to observe a day that puts into perspective how both regimes were unspeakably horrible. There would be a lot of controversy from any russophiles who worship the communist era, as well as any reactionaries who will insist that “there was never any fascism in Bulgaria”. But oh well.
Sadly, it’s not very well known in Germany.
I think a lack of understanding of how communists oppressed the nations of Central and Eastern Europe after World War II lead to the misguided Russia policy of recent years in Germany.
The fact that Czech version of that wiki page is just two lines speak for itself. It is briefly mentioned by media and that’s all.
We have our own holiday when we ended up socialistic experiment. With day off, celebrations etc. It’s next Thursday by the way.
No, we don’t.
The closed thing to this is Remembrance Day of all victims of war on the 4 May. It’s not a day off but we held two minutes of silence and having some memorial services. A day later is liberation day with all kinds of music festivals.
We don’t have a significant communist party. So we don’t have to bother with communist propaganda to much.