Stane Dolanc
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| 10th Secretary of the Interior of SFR Yugoslavia | |
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In office 15 May 1982 – 15 May 1984 |
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| Prime Minister | Milka Planinc |
| Preceded by | Franjo Herljević |
| Succeeded by | Dobroslav Ćulafić |
| 18th Vice-President of the Presidency of SFR Yugoslavia | |
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In office 15 May 1988 – 15 May 1989 |
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| President | Raif Dizdarević |
| Preceded by | Raif Dizdarević |
| Succeeded by | Borisav Jović |
| Personal details | |
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16 November 1925 Hrastnik, Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes |
| Died | 13 December 1999 (aged 74) Ljubljana, Slovenia |
| Nationality | Yugoslav/Slovenian |
| Political party | League of Communists of Yugoslavia (1944-90) |
Stane Dolanc (16 November 1925 – 13 December 1999) was a Yugoslav communist politician, 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 Presidium of the Central Committee (CC) of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia (LCY) from 1971-78, federal Secretary of the Interior from 1982-84 and a member of the Presidency of Yugoslavia from 1984-89. 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.
Dolanc was born to a worker family in the Slovenian town of Hrastnik, then part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. After finishing elementary school in his home town, he was sent to the Bežigrad High School in Ljubljana. In April 1941, northern Slovenia was occupied by Nazi Germany. Dolanc continued his schooling in Graz in Austria. In 1944, Dolanc joined the Yugoslav Partisans and continued his military career after the war.
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