1. Milka Planinc was the first and only woman to hold this office.
21 Facts About Milka Planinc
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Milka Planinc attended school until the onset of World War II interrupted her education.
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Milka Planinc joined the League of Communist Youth in 1941, which was a pivotal year in Planinc's life and for her country.
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Milka Planinc waited impatiently for the day when she would be old enough to join the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia.
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Aged 19, Milka Planinc joined the partisans and became extremely devoted to Tito.
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Milka Planinc became county commissar of the 11th Dalmatian Strike Brigade whose job it was to teach party principles and policies, and ensure party loyalty.
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Milka 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.
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Partisan commander Simo Dubajic, himself accused of war crimes, later alleged that Milka Planinc was involved with the post-war Kocevski Rog massacre.
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Milka Planinc personally advocated that these crimes be investigated, and judicially and scientifically processed.
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Milka Planinc began to pursue a full-time career within the League of Communists of Croatia.
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Milka Planinc specialized in education, agitation, and propaganda, and in 1959 she was elected into the Croatian Central Committee, the executive body.
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Milka Planinc remained the Leader of the League of Communists of Croatia until 1982.
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Milka Planinc became the first woman to occupy such a high post in the country's 64-year history.
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Milka Planinc assembled a new cabinet, which consisted of 29 members.
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Milka Planinc would serve as the President of the Federal Executive Council of Yugoslavia between 1982 and 1986.
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Milka Planinc tried to re-focus the central government and gain international alliances with visits to Britain, the United States, and Soviet Union.
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Milka Planinc offered her resignation in October 1985, but this was not accepted.
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On 12 February 1986 Milka Planinc's government submitted a request to the International Monetary Fund for advanced surveillance.
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Milka Planinc's term ended in May 1986, and before long she became a member of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia.
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Milka Planinc spent the rest of her time living through Yugoslav Wars with the collapse of communism in Europe.
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Milka Planinc resided in Zagreb until her death on 7 October 2010, aged 85.