Valentin Nalivaychenko: Simonenko Must Bare Criminal Responsibility for Justification of Stalin’s Crimes

30 May 2012

“The forcible deportation of Crimean Tatars by Stalin’s regime in 1944 de jure and de facto was the crime against the humanity and the act of genocide against the whole people,”- the Chairman of the political council of the Party “Nasha Ukraina” Valentin Nalivaychenko stated.

He reminded – Stalin’s crimes were repeatedly condemned by the resolutions of the OSCE and the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and oblige Ukraine as a member of these international organizations.

“That is very why I demand from the General Prosecutor to drew the Head of the Communist Party Peter Simonenko to the criminal responsibility for his shameful attempts to justify from the Parliamentary tribune the crime of deportation that resulted in the death of more than 46 per cent of exiled Crimean Tatars,”- Nalivaychenko said.

“The activity of the Communist Party and popularization of the totalitarian Communist ideology in Ukraine must be prohibited. The repeated statements of the representatives of the Communist Party of Ukraine, justifying the inhuman crimes of the Communist regime, that resulted in the death of tens of millions of our nationals serves more than enough basis for this,”- the politician underscored.

Nalivaychenko expressed his conviction that such politicians as Simonenko shouldn’t sit in the Ukrainian Parliament, but stand before the International Tribunal in Hague where the trial against Gen. Ratko Mladich started today who was accused in ethnic cleansing against Bosnian Muslims.

As reported, on May 16, 2012 the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine failed to adopt the draft law of Ukraine “On the restoration of the rights of persons, deported on the national grounds”.

At this, the MPs of the Faction of CPU didn’t take part in the voting, but the Head of the Faction of Communists Petro Simonenko made the scandalous statements, justifying the deportation of the Crimean Tatar people.