25th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia. She served from 16 May 1982 to 15 May 1986. Prior to becoming prime minister she joined the Communist Youth League in 1941. She then spent years working for the Partisans and the Communist Party. Her career took off during the "Croatian Spring", a political turmoil of the late 1960s and early 70s. She was appointed head of the central committee of the league of communists of Croatia in 1971. She held the post until 1982, when she was appointed prime minister. She is best remembered for stabilizing the wilting economy and for being the first and only woman to hold this office and she was the first female head of government in a diplomatically recognized Communist state. After leaving office, Yugoslavia disintegrated in wars in the early 1990s and the country no longer existed. She retired from politics.
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Political career Planinc began to pursue a full-time career within the League of Communists of Croatia. She specialized in education, agitation, and propaganda, and in 1959 she was elected into the Croatian Central Committee, the executive body. Having served in a variety of posts in Zagreb, as the Secretary of the People's Assembly of Trešnjevka in 1957 and then the Secretary of Cultural Affairs of the City of Zagreb in 1961, she became the Secretary of the City of Zagreb League of Communists Committee, and the Secretary for Education of the Socialist Republic of Croatia in 1963, a position in which she remained until 1965. Greater party acknowledgement did not come until 1966 when she was elected into the Presidium of the League of Communists of Croatia (LCC), and then to the executive committee of the LCC in 1968. She served as the President of the Assembly of the Socialist Republic of Croatia 1967–1971. After the events of Croatian Spring, the leadership of LCC was removed, and Planinc became president of the Central Committee in 1971. She made the decision to arrest Franjo Tuđman, Marko Veselica, Dražen Budiša, Šime Đodan and Vlado Gotovac, among others, who had all participated in…
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Milka Planinc (née Malada; pronounced [mîːlka plǎnint͡s]; 21 November 1924 – 7 October 2010) was a Croatian communist politician who served as Prime Minister of Yugoslavia from 1982 to 1986. She was the first and only woman to hold this office. Planinc was also the first female head of government of a diplomatically recognized socialist state in Europe.
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Early life Planinc was born Milka Malada in a mixed ethnic Croat and ethnic Serb family in Žitnić, a small village near Drniš, Dalmatia in modern-day Croatia. She attended school until the onset of World War II interrupted her education. She joined the League of Communist Youth 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 movement known as the Partisans was formed, led by Josip Broz 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 League of Communists of Yugoslavia. She became county commissar of the 11th Dalmatian Strike 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, himself…
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Later life Planinc spent the rest of her time living through Yugoslav Wars with the collapse of communism in Europe. In 1993 her husband died, and in 1994 her son Zoran committed suicide. From the late 1990s until her death, Planinc required the use of a wheelchair and rarely left her home. She resided in Zagreb until her death on 7 October 2010, aged 85. She was interred at the Zagreb's Mirogoj Cemetery.
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Opfell, Olga S. (1993). Women Prime Ministers and Presidents. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarlane & Company., ISBN 978-0899507903. Skard, Torild (2014) "Milka Planinc" in Women of Power - Half a century of female presidents and prime ministers worldwide. Bristol: Policy Press, ISBN 978-1-4473-1578-0.
