Milka Planinc (née Malada; Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: Милка Планинц; 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.

Nazi Germany invaded Yugoslavia and divided the country among German, Italian, Hungarian, and Bulgarian occupying authorities.

[3] 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.

[5] Partisan commander Simo Dubajić, himself accused of war crimes, later alleged that Planinc was involved with the post-war Kočevski Rog massacre.

[citation needed] After the events of Croatian Spring, the leadership of LCC was removed, and Planinc became president of the Central Committee in 1971.

[8] She made the decision to arrest Franjo Tuđman, Marko Veselica, Dražen Budiša, Šime Đodan and Vlado Gotovac, among others, who had all participated in the Croatian Spring.

[citation needed] When Tito died in 1980, he left a plan for a rotating presidency, with the leader coming from each federal unit in turn.

Her mandate as prime minister was remembered as the times when the government finally decided to regulate external debt of SFR Yugoslavia and to start to pay it back.

[11] Planinc tried to re-focus the central government and gain international alliances with visits to Britain, the United States, and Soviet Union.