We probably have to acknowledge the fact that we are all incredibly ripped.
Kissinger, although he was the architect of a completely unprincipled approach based on only one virtue - whether it was beneficial to the United States or not, was still a very professional and, most importantly, competent person.
During the trip to Moscow, it is clear that he understood the general course of processes, the root causes and why everything happens this way and not otherwise.
People met him, how was it? Those who still remembered "Why is all this necessary? ".
The old system, the successors of the Bolsheviks - that is, fanatics and fundamentalists from Marxism, as well as a new generation of apparatchiks, those specially bred to run the country.
This, by the way, also applies to China, where Kissinger was met by people - yesterday's revolutionaries, professional underground fighters.
Professional killers who themselves have lived on the edge for decades, realizing that they can be killed at any moment.
This also applies to Israel, where the same underground and armed fighters of yesterday spoke to him.
Or as Yitzhak Shamir, one of Israel's leaders at the time, said: "I am the terrorist, and they are just robbers! ".
She referred to the days of the British Mandate, when Great Britain saw a number of Jewish underground organizations as terrorists.
The same goes for Europe, where those in power were those who came out of the melting pot of World War II, also the underground fighters of yesterday, the partisans, the terrorists, not the essence, the people of the movement, if you will.
You can treat Kissinger as scum as much as you like, label communists as rotten bastards, see national movements as terrorists or, on the contrary, freedom fighters.
Some of them fought fanatically against communism, others, just as fanatically, against capitalism, but it is hard not to admit that all these were real signifiers.
what do we have today
Ziatek and Vitek, who go to Moscow to eat pusikanchiki, are really random people, where it doesn't matter whether or not they understand what's going on (they do) - they're just illiterate.