Commemoration Day of the Victims of Communism in Bulgaria
Commemoration Day of the Victims of Communism in Bulgaria is held on February 1. Since 2011. This event in the first decade of the month February is annual. 
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On this date in 1945, the First and Second Supreme Chambers of the People's Court marked the history of the Third Bulgarian State with the most massive sentencing of politicians to death. 67 deputies of the XXV National Assembly, the three governments for the period January 1941 to September 3, 1944 headed by Prime Ministers Bogdan Filov, Dobri Bozhilov and Ivan Bagryanov (23 politicians in total) were sentenced to death.
February 1 was commemorated for the first time in 2011, when it was established by a decision of the GERB government with Prime Minister Boyko Borissov as the official Day of Appreciation and Tribute to the Victims of the Communist Regime.
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Holiday of wine-growers or St. Trifon's Day in Bulgaria on February 14 (known as St. Trifon Zarezan - Trifon the Pruner);
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Mother's Day in Albania on March 8 (also Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Burundi, Burkina Faso, Kosovo, Laos, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan);
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