Is it true that a photograph of the plug in Vogue repeats the photograph of Eisenhower before the election of the US president?

In July 2025, Russian -speaking media distributed two similar pictures, allegedly taken with a difference of more than 70 years. We checked the correctness of such publications.

It is alleged that one of the pictures from the photo shoot of the former commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, and now the ambassador of Ukraine to the UK Valery Zaluzhny for the recent issue of Vogue magazine is very similar to a picture of the 34th US President Dwight Eisenhower taken in 1952. And supposedly this is not a coincidence, but a conscious reference - before becoming the head of state, Eisenhower made a successful military career.

This was reported by some media (for example, the newspaper "Sight"), As well as numerous Telegram channels, among which"Uncle Glory"(155,000 views at the time of writing this analysis), Open Ukraine (149,000), "Volynets Alexey"(134,000),"Militarist"(99,000) and"Sheikh Tamir"(95,000).

In July, Zaluzhny took part in photo shoots For the Ukrainian version of Vogue magazine as part of its special project Leaders 2025. The publication also published Column, in which Saluzhny talks about the roots of identity, the power of unity and the main historical lessons for Ukrainians. In one of the photographs that the former commander of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces in the morning of July 29 posted in FacebookHe stands in a black suit, leaning against the white door.

It is this picture that claims that the portrait of Eisenhauer made in the early 1950s repeats. However, “verified” did not find photographs of the 34th president of the United States, at least a little similar to a picture with a slave. If you compare the two images, it is easy to notice that they are almost identical: the same location, the same figure - only the head differs.

In the Russian -language segment of the network, two pictures together with an ironic description began spread On the morning of July 30. However, the day before, they are actively Published Ukrainian telegram channels.

The earliest post with the alleged image of Eisenhower and the corresponding description found “verified” was Placed On Facebook on the page of the Ukrainian political strategist Alexei Golobutsky on July 29 at 17:50 Moscow time. In the corner of the photo there was a watermark of the author.

In the comments, Golobutsky’s subscribers began to “recognize” the recent picture of the slave. The next morning, when the collage of two images spread far beyond the limits of his profile on Facebook, political technologist wrote: “I saw a bunch of reposts of this meme and, not surprisingly, often with my signature, my signature. I'm already used to this. But he noticed that many did not understand my joke. This is not a real photo of US President Eisenhower of 1952. This is a recent photo of the vogue ... ”.

Indeed, the author, judging by his tape, loves to publish humorous pictures, sometimes supplying them with signatures with the same design.

Thus, a photograph of the laying does not repeat the similar photo of Eisenhower. This edited photo was comic, but it turned out to be taken seriously by many Ukrainian, and later Russian media and bloggers - apparently, was cutting with propaganda thesis The fact that the Western countries are promoting the President of Ukraine to the post of president. 

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Not true

What do our verdicts mean?

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