Stane Dolanc

Stane Dolanc
Stane Dolanc during his visit in Romania,
12 February 1978
10th Secretary of the Interior of SFR Yugoslavia
In office
15 May 1982 – 15 May 1984
Prime MinisterMilka Planinc
Preceded byFranjo Herljević
Succeeded byDobroslav Ćulafić
18th Vice President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia
In office
15 May 1988 – 15 May 1989
PresidentRaif Dizdarević
Preceded byRaif Dizdarević
Succeeded byBorisav Jović
Personal details
Born(1925-11-16)16 November 1925
Hrastnik, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes
Died13 December 1999(1999-12-13) (aged 74)[1]
Ljubljana, Slovenia
NationalityYugoslav/Slovenian
Political partyLeague of Communists of Yugoslavia (1944–90)

Stane Dolanc (16 November 1925 – 13 December 1999)[2] was a Slovenian communist politician during SFR Yugoslavia. Dolanc was one of president Josip Broz Tito's closest collaborators and one of the most influential people in Yugoslav federal politics in the 1970s and 1980s. He was secretary of the Executive Bureau of the Presidency of the Central Committee (CC) of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (LCY) from 1971 to 1978, federal Secretary of the Interior from 1982 to 1984 and a member of the Presidency of Yugoslavia from 1984 to 1989. He was regularly appointed a member of the Federal Council for Protection of the Constitutional Order and was chairing the body in late 1980s.

For most of his political career Dolanc defended strong authoritarian rule of the LCY and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country. He was influential in Yugoslav security structures and it is believed that he inspired a number of politically motivated arrests, especially while he was interior minister.[3]

  1. ^ "Stane Dolanc, 74, a Onetime Tito Deputy". The New York Times. 15 December 1999. p. B 14. Retrieved 10 March 2023.
  2. ^ "Stane Dolanc". catalogue.bnf.fr (in French). Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 10 March 2023.
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