It is observed annually on 25 February[1][2] to commemorate the Red Army invasion of Georgia in 1921.

On 25 February 1921, the Red Army entered the capital Tbilisi and installed a communist government, led by Georgian Bolshevik Filipp Makharadze.

[4] For the next 68 years, 25 February was celebrated as an official holiday, the Day of Establishment of Soviet Power in Georgia.

The decision, endorsed unanimously by the Parliament of Georgia instructs the government to organize various memorial events on every 25 February and to fly national flags half-staff to commemorate, as the decision puts it, hundreds of thousands of victims of political repressions of the Communist occupational regime.

[1] Moldova's president Mihai Ghimpu instituted in 2010, Soviet Occupation Day[7][8] to remember the Soviet occupation on 28 June 1940,[9] but the Constitutional Court cancelled his decree on 12 July 2010.