On 9 April 2015, the Ukrainian parliament replaced the term "Great Patriotic War" ("Velyka vitchyzniana viina") in the country's law with "Second World War" ("Druha svitova viina"), as part of a set of decommunization laws. Also in 2015, "Victory Day over Nazism in World War II" was established as a national holiday in accordance with the law "On Perpetuation of Victory over Nazism in World War II 1939-1945" adopted by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on April 9, 2015 within the package of laws on decommunization.