Stane Dolanc
Stane Dolanc | |
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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 Minister | Milka Planinc |
| Preceded by | Franjo Herljević |
| Succeeded by | Dobroslav Ćulafić |
| 18th Vice President of the Presidency of Yugoslavia | |
| In office 15 May 1988 – 15 May 1989 | |
| President | Raif Dizdarević |
| Preceded by | Raif Dizdarević |
| Succeeded by | Borisav Jović |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 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 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.