Is it true that in the 1994 photograph Dmitry Rogozin is captured by the “ziga for aparteid”?

For the past few years, a frame has been distributed through the social networks, on which a person who looks like the ex-head of Roscosmos makes a Nazi gesture at a racist rally. We checked whether the photo is really in the photo - young Dmitry Rogozin.

According to the most detailed signature to the photograph with the mention of the name Rogozin, we have a rally of nationalists against the abolition of an apartheid near the Embassy of South Africa, Moscow, 1994. The fact that in front of us is Dmitry Rogozin, various sources and posts in social networks have been claiming for about four years (2018- Facebook, LJ, Cont.ws, Twitter2019- Twitter, 2020- "Odessa Courier", Politua, "All Kharkov", Vk, 2021th- "Bryansk news", 2022th- "INFOVISHAKA KOSANE", LJ).

In many sources, the 1994 photograph is on a par with the staff from the rally of Russian nationalists of 2007, which, which claims, Dmitry Rogozin also performed. Indeed, a year earlier Rogozin Recreated "Congress of Russian communities", as well as Entered The Public Council for the preparation of the second “Russian march” - an event known for its nationalist slogans and criticized, including from the authorities. Well, on April 14, 2007 on Bolotnaya Square on rally Rogozin opposed the emergence of Kadyrov Street in the capital of Kadyrov Street in the capital, warning that at such a pace, Kitchen-Gorod “will be called Chechen-Aul”, and at the end of his speech, showed a gesture (only with a closed fist), to which his associates answered quite canonical Ziga: at the end of his speech.

Another right -wing rally with the participation of Rogozin took place In Moscow a little earlier, on January 28, 2007. Familiar with these facts, readers are quite naturally perceived by the black and white shots of the 90s with a ziging Rogozin. However, let's look at more details what we know about that rally.

Indeed, on March 22, 1994, members of the youth National-patriotic organization “Front of National Revolutionary Action” (FND, Leader-Ilya Lazarenko) together with the Law-Radical Party (Leaders-former Imagemakers Vladimir Zhirinovsky Sergey Zharikov and Andrey Arkhipov) Picked up The Embassy of South Africa, protesting against the abolition of the apartheid system. In October 2018, when a wave of posts with a photograph of young Rogozin went, the aforementioned Ilya Lazarenko responded with the publication on Facebook, where declared: “The third day on Facebook is some hysterical discussion of this photograph. It seems to the users that she is on Rogozin! Well, that is, few doubt this. However, I can assure you - the organizers and many participants in this action are still alive and know that there was no Rogozin there. The 1994 action is captured here in support of Africanaries at the South Africa Embassy. It was held by our "Front of National Revolutionary Action" (FND) and the law-radical party Sergei Zharikov. In that year, we established contacts with some African organizations and even accepted one of their leaders in Moscow. Specifically, this dude in the photo is the ultra -right party -pian "from the form", the call sign is mayonnaise. Well, yes, it looks like Rogozin here, a devil. ”

In the comments, some friends of Lazarenko confirmed that in the photo there is a certain activist Ruslan, nicknamed mayonnaise. Judging by first -hand testimonies, there is no doubt about this.

Now let's see what Dmitry Rogozin looked like in those years. Here it is in the mid-80s:

Here he is on Congress Young political leaders in Moscow in March 1991:

And in August putty:

But he and General Alexander Swan on Congress "Congress of Russian communities" in 1995:

As you can see, in the first half of the 1990s Dmitry Rogozin, who was already attending at the time of the picket at the Embassy of South Africa 31st year, looked much older than a guy in a picture, the author of which, by Some data, was the photographer Igor Stomakhin. In particular, this is noticeable in baldness on the front of the head of the politician, while a dense bang closes his forehead in a young man. In other words, all facts say that we are not Rogozin.

Image on the cover: social networks.

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