Banana youth

Banana youth
A group of so-called banana youths including Jan T. Gross and Aleksander Smolar (front), Irena Grudzińska, Jan Lityński and Adam Michnik (standing), and Jan Kofman and Barbara Skowrońska (seated), 1967
Years active1960s
CountryPolish People's Republic
Major figures

Banana youth (Polish: bananowa młodzież) was a term coined in the Polish People's Republic during the 1960s to denigrate the children of the nomenklatura, particularly those who participated in the March 1968 protests. The name referenced the banana as a consumer-symbol of out-of-touch affluence at the time.

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