Ervin Hladnik Milharcic on days of remembrance of the beginning and the end

On the 25th April the Italians celebrate the "Day of the Liberation of Italy" and commemorate the end of fascism in 1945. Their Slovenian neighbours, on the other hand, celebrate "Resistance Day" on April 27th. Ervin Hladnik Milharcic comments on the divergences between historical dates in Europe: "If the EU really does decide to write a common history book, it will be very amusing to see how it goes about it... Purely for the sake of experiment it would be interesting to read a common history which spans from Istria to the Scottish lowlands. One could divide history according to these two days which could be celebrated on both sides as the day of remembrance of the beginning and the day of remembrance of the end... However, the question of who liberated whom appears to be impossible to answer."

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