Why is there no 'Polish Mafia'?
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Yes there is organized crime in Poland too. Unfortunately, it exists everywhere. Get online. Type it in your web browsers. Go to your local libraries, too. I would think you could find more productive subjects to spend your time on learning. Good in and good out. Garbage in and garbage out. Be careful what you fill your mind with.
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Although I doubt Poland observes Labor Day as we know it, but their social working class made some pretty impressive political actions against their government's corrupt labor division offices......and those working poor commoners did it by SOLIDARITY, literally.  They put differences asides and joined TOGETHER.\n\nCheck the history on this. Maybe we Americans might learn something here.
692828
I don't have any specifics, but I think it is safe to assume that one exists.\nThe reason I say that has nothing to do with what Ethnic group we are talking about. Every society has criminals, all criminals end up working within a hierarchy, those hierarchies end up leading to Organizations, and those criminal Organizations tend to form based on who can be trusted, & who can be trusted usually means people you feel bound to such as your ethnic group.\nThere's gotta be a better way of saying all that, but it's really early here.
509795
First of all it's Mafia, not mofia!.  Second, most people only know of the Mafia because of Television, and not by personal ties.  The Mob isn't all that it's cracked up to be.  Most people don't have the strength or guts to "pull the trigger" on someone.  You have to be tough, not Hollywood tough either, you have to be real life tough.  Lots of people can talk big %*&#, but when it comes right down to it they get scared.  You should read about the history of the Mafia, and see just how it all started.  I a currently working on a re-write of my Mafia book entitled, The Brotherhood "The New Mafia Story".  I hope to have it done by the end of 2006.
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99% are NOT from Russia, most people that say they are Russian, and in the U.S. ARE NOT, THEY ARE FROM EASTERN EUROPE (they might speak a bit of Russian). For some reason (prolly cause they think that they will get more respect), and YES, it's a scam, the Russian Mob make the U.S. mob look like a bunch of Cub Scouts, (and they all have Phd's). The women come over here, marry you, have a kid, BANG instant citizenship, files for divorce, BANG, instant income, and you picked up the tab COMRADE !
831138
you might want to consider which organized crime group controls the neighborhood you want to open one in and get their input. They might have people on their payroll who can grease the wheels of beauracracy for you, and besides you will end up having to deal with them anyway.
472376
Because the Netherlands are wicked far away and most people, regardless of who's rule they come under, prefer to be able to have a local government and make their own laws.  (Not that the antilles don't have their own government, but they only have juristiction over so much)
668129
thr mafia is still around but they have more ligitament businesses going around (like gambling) the leader of the genovise family got arrested a while ago
177371
Looking to get even with an italian family?\nThere are hitmen who have ways of finding people who don't want to be found.\n\nSopranos rule!
297344
Polics SWAT teams? Well...First of all I don't think such a thing is real. I mean I've never heard of the Polics SWAT team...Anyone else?
303687
Yes, thugs are wanna be gangsters.None of them have any common sense if you ask me.
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The Polish have suffered and still suffer the most.  I am from a town with about 40% Polish, 40% Italian, 10% German, and the rest of us who were thought of as nothings.  The Italians owned the businesses and controlled about 90% of the wealth (the Germans the other 10%), while the Polish were constantly made fun of and made up the majority of the blue collar workers and menial laborers.
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http://www.ipsn.org/irish_mobsters.htm
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I believe the main reason is economic.  \n\nA lot of Poles/Czechs etc move to UK to work and earn money to send back.  Most of these actually move back to their home countries once they have earnt some good money.\n\nThere are some Roma/Gypsy people who move to the UK for persecution reasons.
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Just like Polish and Poland
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I don't beleive the ever got together.\n\n"These curious and usually concealed connections between governments (in the form of the military and intelligence community), organised crime, the Vatican and Nazi war criminals have some significant history. Not least was the secret agreement reached between US Naval Intelligence officers and Mafia don Charles "Lucky" Luciano during World War II. This resulted in the Mafia's decision to aid and assist the Allies by contacting Mob figure Vito Genovese in 1943 to prepare the way for the Allied landing in Sicily. As earlier outlined, it was primarily those SS&endash;Gestapo units located in Italy under command of SS General Wolff that were initially concerned in the Operation Sunrise negotiations."
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OH MY GOD! this is horrible, I can't believe the UK, Italy and Germany refused to help, this is riduculous! They must remove those silent killers now!\n\nThis is a scandal by all measures! how come we never heard about this before???\n\nPlease continue speaking about this matter as i'm sure with time, those shameful governments will have to answer to such crimes. land Mines Kill, why would Egypt have to clean up this mess? Egypt isn't a rich country, the countries that planted those landmine must be the ones to clean them up now! \n\nExcellent Question, thanks for enlightening us all!