Liberation Day (Italy)
Liberation Day (Italian: Festa della Liberazione [ˈfɛsta della liberatˈtsjoːne]), also known as the Anniversary of Italy's Liberation (Anniversario della liberazione d'Italia), Anniversary of the Resistance (Anniversario della Resistenza), or simply 25 April (25 aprile [ˌventiˈtʃiŋkwe aˈpriːle]) is a national holiday in Italy that commemorates the liberation of Italy from Nazi German occupation and from the collaborationist puppet state of the Italian Social Republic, during the final phase of World War II. That is distinct from Republic Day (Italy) (Festa della Repubblica), which takes place on 2 June and commemorates the 1946 Italian institutional referendum. == Background == In Italy, Benito Mussolini's Fascist regime used the term anti-fascist to describe its opponents.