#operation hyacinth

[horrorhick]

"Operation Hyacinth" | Poland | 2021

Dir. Piotr Domalewski

[alistairlowes]

I won't go without you. I'll find you.

[sunnysam-my]

I was talking to my sister the other day about a Polish queer movie called "Hiacynt" (Hyacinth) which is called "Operation Hyacinth" in most non-Slavic countries, since their citizens are less likely to understand that's what the title is referring to.

When I showed my sister the trailer she went:

Her: Oh, so it's a gay movie?

Me: Yes. Why did you think it was called Hyacinth?

Her: What?

Me: You know, like the operation Hyacinth. That time the government created the "pink files" on gay men and transgender people to blackmail them and isolate from society. That literally happened only 34 years ago and the files exist to this day in police's archives.

And she just didn't know about this… because it never effected her… because straight people just don't bother with learning queer history.

What…

[bisexualgoth]

lgbt media set in communist eastern europe save me. lgbt media set in communist eastern europe. save me lgbt media set in communist eastern europe

[theodeckeronlyfans]

autobiography of red by anne carson/ operation hyacinth (2021)/ red doc by anne carson

[isabellaofparma]

the eastern european mood of it all

[ditzgrayson]

ok so i just watched operation hyacinth for the first time and i'm feeling really insane about it mostly because of its use of windows and mirrors in the set and how it's a metaphor for both being watched and being seen. Like please watch this movie and notice the details of when the windows are looking down over everyone, when the windows are behind everyone, when you see someone from outside a window and when you see someone from inside a window because i'm feeling sick to my stomach thinking about it please tell me i'm not the only one who noticed the fucking windows

[kr-yoongi]

Miserable Bisexual Cop sketches incoming !!

[zarya-zaryanitsa]

Operation Hyacinth (Polish: Akcja "Hiacynt") was a secret mass operation of the Polish communist police, carried out in the years 1985–87. Its purpose was to create national database of all Polish homosexuals and people who were in touch with them, and it resulted in the registration of around 11,000 people.

Officially, Polish propaganda stated that the reasons for the launch of the action were as follows:

fear of the newly discovered HIV virus, as homosexuals were regarded as a group of high risk,

control of homosexual criminal gangs

fighting prostitution.

However, most probably, the Służba Bezpieczeństwa (SB) functionaries wanted to gather compromising evidence, which would later be used to blackmail involved individuals. Furthermore, those persons would be more willing to cooperate with the security services, also there are speculations that the operation was part of the wider action aimed at fighting the anticommunist opposition. SB agents were sent to check for opposition illegal movements in LGBT groups.

[horrorhick]

Operation Hyacinth (Hiacynt) | 2021

Robert + Arek

[modroocko-mumbles]

So I recently watched Operation Hyacinth

a polish film based on mass operation against lgbtq people in the 1980s

I’m saying this as someone who can’t watch anything longer than 10 minutes, but honestly go and watch it

[bivampir]

big fan of media set in 1980s where the wet pathetic bisexual man with the moraly questionable job is cringe and cheats on his girl with a man.

[josefksays]

[dzikiemaslo]

Why police, when you can do some vandalism, kiss homies goodnight and ski down the staircase

[theodeckeronlyfans]

goncharov (1973) // operation hyacinth (2021)

[archiwa]

repost of old art