A polish National holiday - women's day

Women’s day is celebrated on 8th March. I think it’s a great occasion to show our respect to women – to give flowers or chocolates, to say how important they are to us. There are many votes against this holiday, but mainly because people don’t know its history. For many years woman’s day was celebrated ostentatiously. Nowadays many man use to say that it was created by communists, and need to force themselves to give flowers, or any other gifts to woman on 8th march. But nothing more misbelieve – this holiday was “invented” by US women in 1909, before communism in Poland. In our country it started to be celebrated after the Second World War, it matched to the socialistic propaganda, that’s why a lot of us call it the communistic holiday and refuse to celebrate it.
Nowadays this holiday isn’t so important as it used to be before 1990’s. There are no more whishes at work, no “lonely tulip” which was given to every woman at work, and she had to sign receiving it. It is mainly celebrated by children at infant-school and primary school, who make colorful cards, to give them to their mothers, grandmothers, and teachers.
Why I have chosen women’s day as our national holiday? I think it was impulsive decision, I couldn’t remind any other holiday which isn’t as international as “Christmas”, or “Easter” – I think it was a good choice, because even if we have bad memories with the date after communism, we still remember it and try to celebrate it as good as we can. Beside that women’s day is special day, every country has different culture and different way of spending that day – from all known to me polish way is the nicest one.