A brief history of this doctrine:
The belief in the corporeal assumption of Mary is founded on the apocryphal treatise De Obitu S. Dominae, bearing the name of St. John, which belongs however to the fourth or fifth century. ...
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On 1 November 1950, Pope Pius XII defined it as dogma in the apostolic constitution Munificentissimus Deus. The origin of the feast day is not known but it was celebrated in Palestine before the year 500.
So there's that.
That this feast day happened to coincide with the end of the Second World War and the reading of the day mentions a great red dragon bent on consuming the Earth not unlike China ...
Well, one can glean from that what one will.
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