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Joined: 21 Feb 2012 / Male ♂ 		Last Post: -
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Posts: Total: 6 / In This Archive: 6 		From: USA, San Francisco
Speaks Polish?: Yes, at an intermediate level
Interests: Writing, Politics, Journalism, Hustling :)

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sakowicz50   
21 Feb 2012
USA, Canada / Polonia who needs help with Polish Documentary [27]

A great welcome to everyone!

I am a Polonia living in the United States. My heart is forever in my Polish homeland and I am very interested in Polish history, customs, food, women, and politics. I joined PF because I go to Poland every year and I only see a very shallow view of the country as a mere tourist. I want to have a much more directed view at certain aspects of Poland and Polish life. To be specific, I need help with a documentary concerning Polish football hooliganism from many different aspects. To my knowledge there have been no full-length documentaries about this very large topic in Poland and Europe. I want to find out more about the hooligan groups, their roots, their history, the people involved, and how many extremist ideologies seem to tie in with it all.

As I am growing up I feel I need to learn more about a country that his been buried by historians despite having a very intricate and amazing history, I like to film and write so it is a good use of my talents and time.

Sorry about being all over the place, it's just that there is so much I want to learn and I don't know the best initial approach to it all. Can anyone direct me to resources about Polish football hooliganism or give personal experiences or opinions about the phenomenon?

I can read Polish to a certain degree, so as long as the Polish resources are not TL;DR I think they would be okay.

Thank you in advance for your help; may the almighty lord give us strength in the war against ignorance and injustice!
sakowicz50   
21 Feb 2012
USA, Canada / Polonia who needs help with Polish Documentary [27]

I do have some of Davies' works and I was planning on buying God's Playground. I will also be sure to find this Ross Kemp documentary, thank you.
sakowicz50   
22 Feb 2012
USA, Canada / Polonia who needs help with Polish Documentary [27]

I know of one person involved in Hooliganry, he can help me have some way to enter the whole ordeal. The only problem is that I can only visit around june/july, do hooligans engage in any activity post-season?
sakowicz50   
22 Feb 2012
USA, Canada / Polonia who needs help with Polish Documentary [27]

So, you just want to document them "in flagrante delicto"?

No, I just need to have a way to meet with the rest of his "ekipa" so I can talk with them, find more about what they do, why they engage in hooliganism, and what their customs/beliefs are. 50% chance is that the documentary will be a complete faliure, It's worth a try if anything.
sakowicz50   
23 Feb 2012
USA, Canada / Polonia who needs help with Polish Documentary [27]

You guys not knowing about who I am is the likely reason why you are so scared of me. Fear springing from ignorance, as RWE said. Let me further introduce myself.

My pseudonym is Alan Katanski. My family has had many experiences with real provocateurs and agents throughout the communist era and I can assure you that I'm not one.

One story from my grandpa was that the AK was heavily persecuted after the war by the PRL but somehow a FULLY UNIFORMED AK group stopped his train and asked the Jews on the train to come with them to the woods. The Jews were not killed or even harmed but the remaining Jews on the train were still scared. My father was detained and beaten for literally no reason by PRL police in the 70s as well.

I am Polish, my family studies its genealogy very well and everyone born before me was born in Poland -- I do have some viking roots though ;). My grandpa was a Syberiak

taken from his home in Lithuania, part of the commonwealth, when he was around 3 and deported to Siberia. The home is now unfortunately gone along with the medals and Golden Szabla my great-grandfather received as a cossack during WWI (my great-grandmother threw it down a well so at least the communist pigs couldn't get it.)

Another provocateur working hard to diminish the image of Poland. Who pays you? Never mind I know.

Nobody pays me to post here. That's the problem -- let me STRICTLY STATE first that my purpose coming here was not to beg for money -- all my expenses for this documentary will come out of pocket. I have no camera, memory cards, money for plane tickets, publisher or editing software (I can take care of the software aspects). What I do have are people I can talk to here, people I know within the Polish hooligan scene, and basic knowledge about filming and editing a documentary film.
sakowicz50   
24 Feb 2012
USA, Canada / Polonia who needs help with Polish Documentary [27]

Ok, you guys got me. My real name is Vladimir Smirnoff and I wish to sabotage Poland. I am going to report back to the KGB saying my mission was disrupted by several intelligent poles who are a great asset to their kinsmen.

Well played.
sakowicz50   
24 Feb 2012
USA, Canada / Polonia who needs help with Polish Documentary [27]

To be honest I have nothing better to do with my life.

If they studied it "very well", they'd know that there's no possible way that everyone before you was born in Poland.

To a reasonable extent my family is 100% Polish-Lithuanian