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That time Ukraine won Eurovision with a song decrying cultural genocide by a murderous dictator

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In 2016, Ukrainian singer Jamala won the Eurovision Song Contest held in Stockholm, Sweden with her incredible single “1944.”The song was about the ethnic cleansing and cultural genocide of the Crimean Tatars at the hands of Joseph Stalin in the 1940s.

It was inspired by Jamala’s great grandmother, who was in her mid-20s when she and her five children were deported to Central Asia.

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