Operation Hyacinth was launched by Poland's minister of internal affairs, Czeslaw Kiszczak (pictured)Ī few months before the operation was launched, police discovered several hundred letters in the man's apartment which he had received in response to an advertisement in a magazine popular within the gay community.Īs part of the investigation, all the authors of the letters were immediately summoned for questioning, their personal details were written down, and their fingerprints and photos were stored on file.īut Polish historians have previously said that the real reason was to gather compromising evidence which could later be used for blackmail, because those arrested would be more willing to cooperate with the security services.
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He later fled to the UK and became the first gay Polish man to get married.Īlthough homosexuality stopped being a criminal offence in Poland in 1932, the Communist authorities put homosexual communities under observation from the mid-1960s believing their sexual orientation to be a social pathology.īut it was not until Operation Hyacinth that personal data and police files started being collated on a nationwide scale, with police using the hunt for the serial killer - as well as the need to combat the newly-emergent AIDS virus - as justification.Īfter being arrested, men were forced to sign statements declaring that they were gay and, shockingly, that they were 'not interested' in children. One of the operation's victims, Waldemar Zboralski, had been chairman of the gay rights group the Warsaw Homosexual Movement. Set in the period, the drama itself follows the story of a police officer trying to track down a serial killer targeting the gay community.īut in the sinister real-life events launched on the 15th of November 1985, thousands of men were arrested, files created, fingerprints taken and 'confessions' confirming their homosexuality forcibly signed.
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The shocking story of a secret police operation to track down all gay men in Communist Poland is to be retold in a new Netflix film.ĭue for release next month, the Polish-language Operation Hyacinth is based on a plan of the same name (Akcja Hyacint in Polish) which led to information being collected on at least 11,000 gay men in the 1980s.