 Prague had a large community of Russian émigrés, and by constantly linking the Russian experience of World War I to the experiences of the Czechoslovak Legions was a way of asserting that the Russians had helped to make Czechoslovakia possible.In Germany, right-wing émigrés found much to their own frustration that right-wing German veterans shunned their offers to participate in "Totensonntag" ("Day of the Dead") as German conservatives did not wish to honor the sacrifices of those who had fought against Germany, and it was left-wing German veterans, usually associated with Social Democratic Party, who welcomed having Russians participate in "Totensonntag" to illustrate the theme that all peoples in the nations involved in the First World war were victims.In Germany, November 11 was not a holiday as no one wanted to honor the day that the "Reich" lost the war, and "Totensonntag" played the same role in Germany that November 11 played in the Allied nations, as the time to honor the war dead.