On the Internet, you can often find a quote from one of the most famous American diplomats in which he regrets the disappearance of the Soviet Union. We checked whether Kissinger said this.

Here is what is told in the popular text: “The famous diplomat Henry Kissinger said that in the 96th year of his life he was disappointed in the ideas of capitalism and considers the greatest sin of the United States“ the systematic destruction of the only fair world state-the Soviet Union ”. According to Kissinger, the behavior of his own grandchildren prompted him to this thought.

"Modern people have everything and at the same time have nothing. Nothing pleases us, we are not really happy. The Soviet man could sincerely rejoice in such simple things as jeans, toilet paper or raw-button sausage, and therefore lived fully, breathed in full breasts. We corrupted him, opened the door to the world where animal laws were hiding behind the bright bait. capitalism, ”he said.

The diplomat emphasized that it took him many years to understand that happiness is not in everyday well -being. “We had only sex, and they had love. We had only money, and they had sincere human gratitude. And so in everything. It’s hard to call me a fan of socialism, I am a Western person with Western thinking, but I believe that a new person was really born in the Soviet Union, one might say - Homo Soveticus. This man was a step above us, and I have sorry that we destroyed this reserve. Our greatest crime, ”he concluded.

This quote is very popular on social networks. For example, publication With her, in the official support of the socialist Nikolai Platoshkin on Facebook, it caused more than 500 reposts. On the official website of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation you can see and response This statement from the doctor of the historical sciences of Yuozas Ermalavichus, who took the opportunity to criticize capitalism. On February 10, 2021, the next issue of the Nikita Mikhalkov program was released "Besogon TV", in which he pre -preceded the words: “But what says the subtlest, smartest enemy of the socialist communist system, former Secretary of State of the United States of America Henry Kissinger” - and brought it as an argument in favor of the Soviet management system.

Indeed, the influential diplomat Henry Kissinger is known for his consistent criticism of the socialist system. At the same time, for many years he was one of the main characters in the dialogue of the two countries, and already in modern times retained Personal ties With the first persons of the Russian state. Natalia Gevorkyan, Natalia Timakova and Andrey Kolesnikov in his book “From the first person. Talking with Vladimir Putin " With reference to the words of the Russian president, they claim that Kissinger once told him, then the right hand of the mayor of St. Petersburg Anatoly Sobchak: “You know, I am now very criticized for my position at that time in relation to the USSR. I believed that the Soviet Union should not leave Eastern Europe so quickly. We very quickly change the balance in the world, and this can lead to undesirable consequences. And now they are blamed for me. They say: here the Soviet Union left, and everything is fine, and you believed that it was impossible. And I really thought it was impossible. Honestly, I still don’t understand why Gorbachev did it. ”

It is impossible to check the reliability of the last quote - it sounded (or did not sound) in a personal conversation. But in any case, it is obvious that it has nothing to do with the statement of interest to us - neither in meaning or formal content. As for the desired quote, it first appeared on October 15, 2018 in publications... The Panorama information agency - a satirical resource, which once again became the root cause of the appearance of the inaccurate news in the Russian -speaking segment of the Internet, and then false knowledge in the heads of dozens, and maybe hundreds of thousands of people.