Milka Planinc
| Milka Planinc | |
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| 29th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia | |
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In office 16 May 1982 – 15 May 1986 |
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| President |
Petar Stambolić Mika Špiljak Veselin Đuranović Radovan Vlajković |
| Preceded by | Veselin Đuranović |
| Succeeded by | Branko Mikulić |
| 7th Secretary of the League of Communists of Croatia | |
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In office 14 December 1971 – 16 May 1982 |
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| Preceded by | Savka Dabčević-Kučar |
| Succeeded by | Jure Bilić |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
21 November 1924 Drniš, Yugoslavia (now Croatia) |
| Died | 7 October 2010 (aged 85) Zagreb, Croatia |
| Political party | League of Communists |
Milka Planinc (pronounced [mîːlka plǎnint͡s]; 21 November 1924 – 7 October 2010) was a Yugoslav politician from Croatia. She served as a Prime Minister of Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1982 to 1986, the first and only woman to hold this office. Planinc was also in tern the first female head of government in a widely recognised communist country, with the first in a partially recognized communist country being Khertek Anchimaa-Toka of Tuvan People's Republic, also the first female non hereditary head of state.
Planinc was born Milka Malada in a mixed ethnic Croat and ethnic Serb family in Žitnić, a small village near Drniš, Dalmatia. She attended school, but with the onset of World War II her schooling was interrupted. She joined the Communist Youth League in 1941, which was a pivotal year in Planinc’s life and for her country. Nazi Germany invaded Yugoslavia and divided the country among German, Italian, Hungarian, and Bulgarian occupying authorities. Soon a resistance group known as the Partisans was formed, led by a locksmith named Josip Broz who called himself "Tito". Planinc waited impatiently for the day when she would be old enough to join the anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia.
Aged 19, Planinc joined the Partisans and became extremely devoted to Tito. In 1944 she joined the Communist party. She became county commissar of the 11th Dalmatian Shock Brigade whose job it was to teach party principles and policies, and ensure party loyalty. Planinc spent years working for the Partisans and the Communist party, and when they gained control of the entire region she enrolled in the Higher School of Administration in Zagreb to continue her education. Partisan commander Simo Dubajić later alleged that Planinc was involved with the post-war massacre at Kočevski Rog.
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