The public holiday remembers the establishment of the Liberation Front which led the resistance against Nazi and Fascist occupation in WWII.

The Anti-Imperialist Front was created In Ljubljana on 26 April 1941. That was two weeks after Slovenia, then part of Yugoslavia, was occupied by Nazi Germany and ten days after the Yugoslav authorities in Belgrade surrendered.

Resistance Day is said to be the most controversial public holiday, with displays of the Partisan red star at hundreds of ceremonies across Slovenia.

The official ceremony was held in Kočevje last night.