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The German debate occasioned by the thirtieth anniversary of the German Autumn of 1977 seems to have been dominated by critical assessments of the student rebellion of ’68, identified as the root cause of the terrorist wave of the 1970s, epitomized by the urban guerilla group Red Army Faction (RAF). Meanwhile, forty years after the German ’68 rebellion Polish commentators were divided in their judgments of that radical protest movement. While analyzing the main features of the Polish debate this article tries to demonstrate that the type of coverage and the discourse employed in Poland conform to the mechanism of politics of creation