Jože Pučnik, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jože Pučnik

Slovenian politician and socioloigst

Date of Birth: 09-Mar-1932

Place of Birth: Črešnjevec, Slovenska Bistrica Municipality, Slovenia

Date of Death: 11-Jan-2003

Profession: politician, editor, sociologist, philosopher

Nationality: Slovenia

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Jože Pucnik (9 March 1932 – 11 January 2003) was a Slovenian patriot, public intellectual, sociologist and politician.
During the communist regime of Josip Broz Tito, Pucnik was one of the most outspoken Slovenian critics of dictatorship and lack of civil liberties in Yugoslavia.
He was imprisoned for a total of seven years, and later forced into exile.
After returning to Slovenia in the late 1980s, he became the leader of the Democratic Opposition of Slovenia, a platform of democratic parties that defeated the communists in the first free elections in 1990 and introduced a democratic system and market economy to Slovenia.
He is also considered one of the fathers of Slovenian independence from Yugoslavia.