Polish football hooligans are renowned for some of the worst violence the game has ever seen. They have close links with the extreme right wing and Nazi groups. And are feared throughout Europe. Ross Kemp on Gangs s3e2: Poland, Sky 2007
Football hooliganism in Poland is well planned. ibid.
Police in white helmets are deployed into the ground to prevent a full-scale riot. ibid.
The levels of hatred seem out of control. ibid.
We are really really not wanted here ... The Stilon Fighters are determined to stop us filming them. ibid.
They don’t regard themselves as hooligans but skinheads. ibid.
The right wing have infiltrated the terraces. ibid.
A right-wing hitlist called the Red List. ibid.
The hatred runs so deep that people are killed. ibid.
Where East meets West: Poland, and I want to find out and crack into one of the oldest and biggest prison gangs probably in the world: the Grypsers. Inside the Gangsters’ Code, Discovery Channel 2013
Mafia gangs competing to take over the streets. ibid.
Grypsers are old school and date back to communist times. ibid.
I married a German. Every night I dress up as Poland and he invades me. Bette Midler
Poland is not a very large country, but it’s also not a small country. Donald Tusk
Let Poland be Poland. Jan Pietrzak, comedian, patriotic song 1976, re Solidarity movement
Of all the countries that took part in the Second World War it was Poland that suffered most ... Almost 20% of the population. Charles Wheeler, The Road to War: Global War, BBC 1989
The cultural and intellectual leaders of Poland were specifically targeted. In a country with a nearly 90% Catholic population that meant open season on the clergy. Pope vs Hitler, National Geographic 2016
One and only one ally: Poland. Poland was the only country which was invaded and occupied by the Germans which did not in the end surrender, did not sign an armistice, never did a deal. It said, no we’re still at war with you … Tens of thousands of its soldiers got to Britain, and eight and half thousand airmen. Battle of Britain 80: Allies at War, History 2020
The Soviet Red Army invades Poland from the east. Visions of War: The World in Flames 2012