18 Facts About Stane Dolanc

Stane Dolanc was a Slovenian communist politician during SFR Yugoslavia.

Stane Dolanc was secretary of the Executive Bureau of the Presidency of the Central Committee of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia 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.

Stane Dolanc 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 Stane Dolanc defended strong authoritarian rule of the LCY and struggled against nationalism stemming from various parts of the country.

Stane Dolanc 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.

Stane Dolanc was born to a worker family in the Slovenian town of Hrastnik, then part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.

In 1944, Stane Dolanc joined the Yugoslav Partisans and continued his military career after the war.

Stane Dolanc served as a deputy to the prosecutor in Ljubljana Army corps and finished his involvement in the military in 1960 while being a colonel in Zagreb office of the Yugoslav military counter-intelligence service KOS.

In 1965, Stane Dolanc became a member of the CC of the League of Communists of Slovenia, and at the ninth congress of LCY in 1969 he was elected a member of the CC LCY.

Stane Dolanc became famous for a statement he had made at a local communist conference in Split in September 1972:.

At the eleventh Congress of LCY in 1978 the Executive Bureau was abolished and although Stane Dolanc was appointed secretary of the CC LCY Presidium, he resigned from this office in May 1979.

Stane Dolanc remained a member of the CC Presidium and, besides, in June 1979 he was re-appointed a member of the Federal Council for Protection of the Constitutional Order, an agency of the Yugoslav Presidency coordinating internal security institutions.

Stane Dolanc continued to play an important role in Yugoslavia's communist political establishment after Tito's death in May 1980.

In May 1982, Stane Dolanc became the Secretary of the Interior in the new Yugoslav government led by Milka Planinc.

Stane Dolanc publicly condemned him in a TV interview and Seselj was eventually sentenced for a several-year imprisonment.

Stane Dolanc has been accused of ordering assassinations of political emigrant activists committed by Yugoslav security service abroad and of personal protection of one of its agents, career criminal known as "Arkan".

From May 1984 to May 1989, Stane Dolanc was the Slovenian member of the Presidency of Yugoslavia and during the term he was chairman of the Federal Council for Protection of the Constitutional Order.

Stane Dolanc died in Ljubljana on 12 December 1999, from a cerebral stroke.