Editing Petro Symonenko (section)

==Political positions==

On 28 November 2006, the Ukrainian Parliament narrowly passed a law defining the [[Holodomor]] as a deliberate act of genocide and made public denial illegal. Commenting in 2007, Symonenko said that he "does not believe there was any deliberate starvation at all", and accused [[Viktor Yushchenko]] of "using the famine to stir up hatred". In response, Yushchenko declared he wanted "a new law criminalising Holodomor denial".<ref name="Sheeter">Laura Sheeter, [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7111296.stm "Ukraine remembers famine horror"], ''[[BBC News]]'', 24 November 2007</ref> In May 2012, Symonenko defended the [[deportation of the Crimean Tatars]], saying that this measure saved Crimean Tatars because otherwise a civil war would have started.<ref>[https://www.unian.net/politics/649781-simonenko-zayavil-chto-kryimskih-tatar-deportirovali-chtobyi-zaschitit.html Симоненко заявил, что крымских татар депортировали, чтобы защитить], ''[[UNIAN]]'', 16 May 2012</ref>