Victory Day (Westland)

Victory Day is a holiday in Westland that commemorates the establishment of the modern socialist state by Mikail Strasson as a result of the Westlandic Revolution during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Victory Day became a holiday on February 12, 1926 by Chancellor Rik Burkösson to honor the end of the monarchy and the creation of the new socialist state under the political, social, and moral guidence of Strassonism as well as honor the achievements made by the participants in the revolution. Ever since 1926, Victory Day is a public and federal holiday and is the most popular holiday in all of Westland.

Background
During the 19th century, the Kingdom of Westland was a third world country and suffered the worst drawbacks of the industrial revolution. Rural peasant workers and their families moved into Westland's cities to find work and this resulted in overcrowding and horrid sanitary conditions. The monarchy, the House of Westland, had benefited greatly from the revolution financially along with the various tycoons and other corporate officials and even nobles with business ties while the general public suffered from poor living conditions and meager wages. Angered by the inequality in society, Mikail Strasson would found the Socialist Party in 1885 and declared in a speech of his;"We, the great people of the nation of Westland, shall no longer suffer from the wrath and tyranny of the capitalist aristocrats and the greedy nobles that bleed us dry. Together, the workers of Westland will rise up and claim their status as the rightful owners of this great nation."